Letter: GOP had big wins on Election Day

While Newsday's editorial page can't be prevented from gloating now that its journalistically unseemly, full-throttled support for one candidate in the race for Nassau district attorney produced the result that the paper's sachems so breathlessly desired, the editorial ["Election Night had a history," Nov. 5] is so permeated with erroneous information and speculation not grounded in fact that I must respond. After all, as any good journalist will attest, the public deserves to know the truth!

Kate Murray was nominated by our party to run for district attorney because of her extensive experience in government, her unblemished reputation for honesty and integrity, and her proven popularity with voters in the county's largest township. To suggest that she was nominated to run for the most important law enforcement position in our county simply to clear the way for another candidate to run for the town supervisor's seat is pure fiction, most likely being advanced by a disappointed aspirant for the nomination that ultimately went to Murray.

Viewed objectively, and not through the prism of Newsday's relentless anti-Republican bias, Nassau Republicans enjoyed an outstanding victory on Tuesday.

While the Democrats did retain control of the district attorney's office, there was little else for them to celebrate on election night 2015.

The Democrats failed in their determined effort to win a majority in the Nassau County Legislature. Brushing aside the virulently negative campaigns of their Democratic opponents, every single Republican legislator was re-elected, and the one open legislative seat on the ballot easily remained in Republican hands.

In the Town of Hempstead, in an open-seat race for town supervisor, the Republican candidate was elected in a landslide, while every single candidate for town office won his or her election handily.

In the Town of Oyster Bay, with the exception of the supervisor's race, which is too close to call, all Republicans were re-elected.

Glen Cove's Republican mayor was re-elected, as was the one Republican running for re-election on North Hempstead's town board.

Every judicial office save one was won by a Republican, including what is arguably the county's most important judicial post: Surrogate's Court judge.

So while those on the editorial board at Newsday can be forgiven for reveling in the one clear success they achieved this year in the paper's role as Nassau's de facto Democratic Party, the fact remains that Nassau County Republicans enjoyed across-the-board victories Tuesday, thanks to the votes of taxpayers who trust Republicans to be better stewards of their hard-earned tax dollars.

Joseph N. Mondello, Westbury

Editor's note: The writer is the chairman of the Nassau County Republican Committee.