Spin Cycle

How can you have a 6 million dollar operating deficit each year? Were they borrowing money to pay operating expenses all these years?

Gee, after Tommy has has basically said every state legislator except Chuck Lavine is pond scum, I bet they're really eager to help old Ralphie. So, Tommy, when do you start the FIX GLEN COVE movement?

I have a new poll for newsday. Whos the biggest jerk on the blogs ?

a. david greene 45%

b. Bill c 45%

c. its a tie 10%

dear suozzi fan--i always that if you stand for anything you put your name on it--and on sept 12th--one of us will be happy with the results--and i suspect it will not be you---as for glen cove--tom suozzi has structured his budgets to get him out of town before the check his due--his successor is cut from the tom mold--now another suozzi-obviously a different and more responsible one has step up to the plate--follow the budget trail--all roads lead to tom suozzi--he did the same thing in nassau and the bill is coming due this fall---the not ready for prime time hack politican is returning not carrying his shield or on his shield, but hiding under his shield-

My oh my, where does Bruce Nyman find the time to write all these Suozzi Fan blog posts?

never confuse Ralph with Tom. One is an honest Suozzi, the other is Tom "Turkey" Suozzi. Tom is a very efficient speaker. He is able to talk out of both sides of his mouth at the same time.

The big loser in all this (besides Nassau residents) is Jay Jacobs, who Tom is taking down with him.

If you want to do an interesting poll, ask each of the town and local Dem chairs who they would like to see as County Executive. They wan't go on record, but guess who it isn't.

Are u sure you are a "one time ally" or a bandwagon jumper? Which is it? or is it back stabber, or maybe "cry baby" because you didnt get everything you wanted? Or perhaps "front runner" ? Hey are you a Met fan this year too? LOL you guys that all critize Mr. Suozzi are pathetic. If he wins your will probably be "a.. Kisser".Tom Suozzi was right, if you want "friends" in poilitcs, get urself a dog.

Ralph Suozzi has to clean up the mess after his cousin and Holzkamp. And guess who is one of the culprits in the finance mess and the Glen Cove waterfront fiasco? None other than Chuck Lavine

Newsday refuses to print this letter submitted by the Nassau PBA... why not?

Team Newsday and the Big Game

In response to the Newsday editorial of August 4, 2006 (Preseason Report), it is obvious that the 2007 Nassau County budget deliberations is clearly the Super Bowl of local politics. Normally in a sporting event of this magnitude, in addition to the two competing teams (Team Suozzi and Team Legislature) we would have the every present hometown media.
The local writers and commentators would be extolling the virtues of their team. Swirling around this event is the never-ending number of talking heads who feel compelled to offer their expert analysis of the strength and weaknesses of the two teams.
Naturally the game never turns out the way the local media predict, and the so-called independent experts usually miss the target. But that is the way of a sporting event.

The 2007 Nassau County Budget Bowl is somewhat unusual since it doesn’t follow the customary pre-game buildup. Firstly, the Coach, and some would say the only player on Team Suozzi, is auditioning for another job. Clearly Coach Suozzi wants to be anywhere but in Nassau County, this can’t be a comforting fact to his team. But it is a fact nonetheless.
The game can’t begin until the whistle is blown and that won’t happen until Team Suozzi presents the 2007 budget to Team Legislature.

What about the local media supporters of the competing teams? Sad to say but there is only one major media player, Newsday. Out the window goes the scenario of local media rallying around their team. Rather than being like the Super Bowl, this fact makes this game more like the big game between the two hometown high school football teams. Team Suozzi and Team Legislature. The local paper, not willing to be seen as taking sides, would run a series of articles supportive of each team, encouraging the teams to fight hard, but fair, and reminding the teams that is important that good sportsmanship should be the rule of the day. One would have hoped that Newsday would have followed this model and been a voice for reason in the upcoming budget debate.

Newsday seems incapable of being the voice of reason; instead it has chosen sides before the big game and has thrown its support behind Team Suozzi. Since Tom is out of town someone must be the mouthpiece for Team Suozzi.
Into the breach steps Newsday. It is clear from the recent editorial that Newsday has concluded that Team Suozzi does not have the superior arguments in the upcoming budget debate. Therefore if you can’t kill the message, you kill the messenger. In that editorial we clearly see the outline for the Team Suozzi/Newsday strategy in handling the 2007 budget deliberations. Team Legislature as well as the County Comptroller has come under fire from Newsday for daring to raise concerns about the County’s fiscal condition. Newsday seems to find it shocking that the Nassau Legislature and the Nassau Comptroller are stepping up to the line of scrimmage and are prepared to do their job of representing the interests of the citizens of Nassau County. If Team Suozzi/Newsday can’t push the line back, then someone must be blamed and targeted as the fall guy for the failures of Team Suozzi/ Newsday. To that end Newsday has, once again, gone back to the well-worn playbook, and is starting to put forth an argument that the Nassau PBA is the root cause of all the County’s budgetary ills.
Earlier in the year the Nassau PBA had to call Newsday on this type of behavior. We have attempted, once again, to have our voices heard in the op-ed pages of Newsday. Only now we are being told of Newsday policy to limit input from the PBA to four times a year. How convenient for Newsday, and for Team Suozzi. If Newsday really thought that the Nassau PBA was such a negative in the budget deliberations, it would stand to reason that they would encourage public discussion and debate in order to galvanize public support for the budgetary positions set forth by Team Suozzi/Newsday. Clearly, Newsday’s own policy is designed to make this a one sided debate. The Nassau PBA believes that an open and honest discussion of the issues is a critical component of all budget deliberations. We are confident that Team Legislature would welcome this public input. It is clear that Team Suozzi/Newsday can ill afford honest dialogue on this matter, never have and never will. The Nassau PBA will not sit idly by and permit forces that oppose reasoned discussion to control the debate. Once again we are being forced to use other media outlets to get all the facts on the table. We had hoped that after last spring’s confrontation with Newsday that they would have come up with a new playbook. It appears they can’t or won’t.

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