Spin Cycle

Sean Patrick Maloney, the Democratic candidate for attorney general who recently derided Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi's campaign for governor, didn't fare too well at Nassau's fireworks display in East Meadow on Saturday.
Maloney, who worked in the Clinton White House, was asked by security to stop campaigning inside the fenced-in area at the event in Eisenhower Park.
"He had one of those big obnoxious signs," said a person who witnessed it.
The security worked for Commerce Bank, which sponsored the fireworks show, not for Suozzi. Suozzi left his campaign signs outside the fence, but shook hands with residents inside the fence. He also shook hands (inside the fence) with Maloney, who recently on the Daily News blog described his campaign this way: "This is not Tom Suozzi running against Eliot Spitzer and this is not some vanity project or protest candidacy."
That is not the only point of conflict between the two. Maloney is openly gay, and Suozzi is against gay marriage.

Michael Rothfeld