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New hint of Nassau DA going for AG
In the latest sign of a move to move on up to state attorney general this year, Nassau DA Kathleen Rice, who won a second term in the post less than four months ago, has let it be known that she's seeking a campaign deputy communications director.
"This position will work closely with the research and policy departments to effectively disseminate information, responds to media request and set-up planned public appearances," says her posting. It calls for "two years of communications, policy, campaign or journalism experience required; experience dealing with the media and organizing press events strongly preferred; ability to work long/irregular hours."
Tags: Kathleen Rice, Nassau
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Nassau Cons. update: Checks & balances
After Nassau Conservative Party Chairman Roger Bogsted bet on the wrong horse in the past county executive election, party members are now facing dueling, back-to-back Conservative fundraisers.
The first is a “Chairman’s Circle” breakfast, a $250-a-plate event Thursday at the Westbury Manor. Checks were to be made out to the Nassau Coujnty Conservative Party Chairman’s Circle and mailed to Bogsted.
The following night, the party’s annual Presidents Birthday Party takes place at the Freeport Yacht Club with its' $75 checks made out to the Nassau County Conservative Committee, care of Danny Donovan, the party’s executive vice-chairman who has let it be known he thinks Bogsted should quit as chairman.
Bogsted, who worked for former Democratic County Executive Thomas Suozzi as consumer affairs commissioner, ran Steve Hansen, the department's counsel, as the Conservative candidate for county executive instead of endorsing the Republican Ed Mangano. After beating Suozzi, Mangano fired Bogsted.
Tags: Conservatives, Nassau, Edward Mangano, Thomas Suozzi, Roger Bogsted
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G'brand due in Nassau to see Dem leaders
State and Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs, legislative minority leader Diane Yatauro and Hempstead Mayor Wayne Hall are doing a "meet and greet" this evening at the Hempstead Library with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. She, on an official trip, was due to meet in Suffolk with a minority officials' group today -- after it became evident that ex-Rep. Harold Ford Jr. is running against her in a primary.
Tags: Kirsten Gillibrand, Harold Ford Jr., Jay Jacobs, Diane Yatauro, Wayne Hall, Democrats, Nassau
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GOP acts to recoup control of Nassau OTB
The Nassau legislature’s new Republican majority is moving to take control of the county’s off-track betting agency.
Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa) has submitted the names of two Republicans, Joseph Bentivegna of Levittown and Frank DeStefano of Farmingdale, and Independence Party member Eric A. Harkin of Wantagh, for appointment by the legislature to the three-member OTB board of directors. State law requires at least one of the three belong to different political party.
The OTB board appoints the president of the agency, which has long been a patronage stronghold for the party in power.
Bentivegna, a former Hempstead deputy parks commissioner and former member of the OTB board, is close to Nassau Republican Chairman Joseph Mondello.
DeStefano is a retired Oyster Bay parks commissioner who served in the early 1970s as the Nassau GOP committee’s press secretary.
Harkin works as an engineer helper at the Town of Hempstead’s Merrick Golf Course.
Tags: Nassau, off-track betting, Albany, Oyster Bay, Joseph Mondello, Peter Schmitt
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Good lead department, Nassau County, N.Y.
Political analysis aside, we simply like this lead paragraph from the Community Alliance blog:
“On November 3rd last, the voters, here in Nassau County, at least, stayed home. And so it is that, through the perfect storm of taxpayer anger, incumbent angst, and electoral malaise, Ed Mangano, a 7-term Nassau County Legislator, becomes Nassau's next County Exec.”
Tags: Nassau, Edward Mangano, elections, Community Alliance
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Nassau switches vote-machine contractors
Nassau has switched voting-machine suppliers after a series of difficulties.The county is contracting with Election Systems and Software to provide about 1,300 optical scanners and 450 handicapped-accessible ballot-marking devicese, according to Bill Biamonte, the Democratic elections commissioner.“New York State and Nassau county are faced with the prospect of full (implementation of) HAVA (Help Americans Vote Act) in 2010,” Biamonte said. “Commissioner (John) DeGrace and I thought it prudent to go with a company that’s more experienced and has more of a track record.”The overall contract is due to cost “a little over $9 million,” Biamonte said, all of which comes out of federal HAVA funds.The county had been dealing with Dominion Voting Systems, he said.
Tags: Nassau, Board of Elections, voting machines
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Nassau Legislature sworn in
“Grouch” might be the order of the day as Republicans assume control of the Nassau County Legislature on Monday.
That’s an “Oscar the Grouch” mug that the former presiding officer, Legis. Diane Yatauro (D-Glen Cove) wants to give to the incoming presiding officer, Legis. Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa.)
The mug _given to Schmitt by his daughter_went missing months ago, just before the April 20 meeting of the legislature, causing a stir and a delay in starting as legislators and staff searched. In vain, it turned out.
Yatauro said she has been looking on e-bay and in stores for a replacement and thought Monday might be good day to give a new mug to Schmitt, but there’s been no word over the holidays on whether she found it.
The 11 Republicans and 8 Democrats are scheduled to take their oaths of office at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City in a ceremony that begins at 10 a.m. The first session of the legislature follows back at the Theodore Roosevelt Building. It’s tentatively scheduled for noon.[UPDATE: She actually got him two mugs _ one a standard Oscar the Grouch, and one with Oscar the Grouch and the word "Scram" on it," a spokeswoman for Yatauro said later.]
Tags: Nassau Legislature, Peter Schmitt, Diane Yatauro, Nassau
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Nassau's DiNapoli probes NYRA, ushers in fellow Dems
Democrats in the Nassau Legislature will be sworn in on Jan. 4 by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, a prominent favorite-son of the county party.
Meanwhile, DiNapoli’s office is reported to be focusing on an issue of importance to his old stomping grounds — the Belmont Stakes — by issuing subpoenas for documents from the New York Racing Association.
Which isn't to say the racing industry isn't in the dumper. Stay tuned.
Tags: Nassau, Thomas DiNapoli, Belmont, Nassau Legislature
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'C' leader who bucked Nassau exec-elect booted from county job
From the not-a-shock department: Roger Bogsted (left in photo), the Conservative county chairman who seemed to help Democrat Tom Suozzi by running aide Steve Hansen for county executive, thus splintering the Republican vote for Ed Mangano, has been fired by Mangano as county consumer affairs chairman. Same for Hansen. They are included on Mangano's Christmas-week firing list for the budget-strapped incoming administration.
Celeste Hadrick has details here.
Tags: Roger Bogsted, Edward Mangano, Thomas Suozzi, Steve Hansen, Conservatives, Republicans, Nassau
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Nassau exec-elect meets, greets civic players
Nassau Executive-elect Edward Mangano has met with key figures in advance of taking office. Among them: Nassau Interim Finance Authority chairman Ronald Stack and philanthropist and civic activist Amy Hagedorn.
Mangano during the election campaign cited NIFA's reports on the fiscal state of the county and now it becomes his challenge to wrestle with the current pressures on taxes and borrowing. Stack is an executive for Wells Fargo. Mangano has invited all NIFA members to the inauguration.
The Republican legislator's introductory meeting with Hagedorn, of the Port Washington foundation named for her late husband, covered among its topics the U.S. Census count, immigration, youth programs and sustainable growth, attendees said.
Jennifer Rimmer, we are told, attended for Sustainable LI. She's seen by some as a possible future leader for the Long Island Association.
Tags: Amy Hagedorn, Ronald Stack, NIFA, Jennifer Rimmer, Edward Mangano, Nassau
