A former top Suffolk official, Republican Gregory Blass, has quietly started working for County Executive Steve Levy as the $113,500 a year chief deputy commissioner in the Department of Social Services.
Blass, 56, the former presiding officer of the Suffolk Legislature, began work Jan 2 in his new post a year after he lost re-election and after a decade as a family court judge. For the past year, he has been a court appointed referee for Office of Court Administration
Blass served for three years as legislative leader and was backed by a bipartisan coalition of county lawmakers including Levy...
Rick Brand
The two were allied on such issues as fighting the opening of the Shoreham nuclear plant, and reforming the Suffolk Water Authority and the Vanderbilt Museum.
Edward Dumas, Levy's spokesman, said Blass' credentials as family court judge gives him the credential for his new social services post.
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Blass was instrumental in the closing of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, 3000 dead americans in Iraq the end result. He was also instrumental in creating LIPA, the end result; highest electric rates in the country. Can hardly wait to see what this political hack will do with social services.
Interesting on how there is 1400 vacancies in suffolk county that levy refuses to fill however he brings back from the political dead this guy Steve Blass. My question is simple , why? Does it have something to do with their common friend Wayne Prospect who is sporting a rather nice orange jumpsuit in lovely Yaphank?
Did Levy fire Blass yet? If not when?