I will offer a prediction. The Republicans will not come back into power in this county or town within a decade. You will be stuck with one party rule of the NNTP/Randy Kolb/Bill Sherman machine making. The Independence and Conservative parties will all become utterly irrelevant as well. There will be now a O'Connell machine in the county. Face up to it and accept it now and enjoy it.
If the reps don't come back for a decade....then they have no one to blame but themselves. OR....perhaps the sheople are satisfied with the dems governing. Why do you suppose the reps are not in power? Who would you 'blame'?
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
If the reps don't come back for a decade....then they have no one to blame but themselves. OR....perhaps the sheople are satisfied with the dems governing. Why do you suppose the reps are not in power? Who would you 'blame'?
generational systems......ie: education, working, government, media etc etc........the 'new sheeple' have made their choice....
I blame the heads of the party for abandoning the principles the party was founded on and for not keeping in touch with we the people who elected them to office. It will be up to we the people to correct the situation we created when we believed the lies that were told to us during the campaign as well.
The rep party has abandoned it's conservative ideology years ago. And it appears that they can't get their 'groove' back. And that is why there is a tea party movement. They are the ones that will give the people the other option of conservatism.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
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...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
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If the reps don't come back for a decade....then they have no one to blame but themselves. OR....perhaps the sheople are satisfied with the dems governing. Why do you suppose the reps are not in power? Who would you 'blame'?
They don't have the decency to resign in disgrace. They are too busy blaming the NNTP for their stupidity. Many potential leaders have fled the sinking ship. Others are reluctant to take over a party thousands in the red.
I couldn't help but notice the similarities between Nassau County and Rotterdam.
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Politician Fell After Reaching for the Stars
By PETER APPLEBOME Published: December 2, 2009 Asked if perhaps he took his eye off the mundane details of governance while juggling all those big ideas, big plans and big ambitions, Thomas R. Suozzi made no apologies.
“I didn’t go into public life to think small,” said Mr. Suozzi, who officially crashed and burned when he conceded the election for Nassau County executive to Edward P. Mangano, a Republican, on Tuesday.
To be clear: Mr. Suozzi remains convinced he did the small stuff and the big stuff, rescuing Nassau from financial ruin and figuratively making the trains run on time, while also running for governor, taking on the state property tax system, re-envisioning suburbia, crusading to fix Albany and championing game-changing development like the $3.7 billion Lighthouse at Long Island.
Still, if you wanted to write a political novel set in the real world, circa 2009, you could do worse than to follow the career of Mr. Suozzi — handsome, articulate, extravagantly ambitious, and now looking for work. Born into a suburban political family, he became mayor of his hometown, Glen Cove, at the age of 30 in 1993 and, eight years later, the second Democrat ever to be elected Nassau County executive. Then, last month, while contemplating what would be the next escalator with his name on it, poof, he became a reminder that in politics your strengths and weaknesses often turn out to be the same thing.
“I think the voters sensed that he was taking them for granted, while deciding what he was going to run for next, and they didn’t like it,” said Peter J. Schmitt, a Republican Nassau County legislator who will go from minority to majority leader as a result of the elections. “He was always looking for the next stop, but the train to where he wanted to go never stopped at his station.”
True, Mineola isn’t Baton Rouge, and Mr. Suozzi’s fall isn’t quite on the order of “All the King’s Men.” But in a suburban country where suburbs get no respect, why not the tale of an enormously talented politician reaching for the stars in a job that has all the messy details of a big-city mayor without any of the urban glamour. Sinatra never sang about waking up in a county that never sleeps. “No one says, ‘I want to grow up to be the county executive,’ ” Mr. Suozzi said Wednesday. “Most people don’t have any idea what the county executive even does.”
Nonetheless, while still in his 30s, he found himself leading what is perhaps the most iconic suburban place there is, the land of Jay Gatsby and Robert Moses, Levittown, the L.I.E. and the L.I.R.R., the place where the suburbs were sort of born and seemed to be sort of dying, with a budget larger than that of 11 states.
BY almost any measure, his first term was a triumph — and Nassau in most ways is infinitely better run than when he was elected. Broken and almost bankrupt when he took over, its credit rating hovering on junk, it has since earned a top-level bond rating from all three credit rating agencies and has a stable outlook, despite the recession. The payroll is down by 1,000 bodies from when he took over, and it’s a place where government mostly works.
Mr. Suozzi was also the rare suburban officeholder with a real vision for the suburbs, even if Republicans like the party chairman, Joseph N. Mondello, say Nassau doesn’t want a new vision, it just wants to be an affordable version of what it used to be. Mr. Suozzi says he was a leader in taking on property tax issues. Republicans say he took them on rhetorically, but never sufficiently took on the unions and bureaucracies on his own turf. The voters, in their wisdom, seemed more taken with the case against him, and when they revolted against property taxes this year, his was one of the heads to roll.
At the least, there’s a minor political morality play in a brainy, ambitious political creature who still had $2 million in campaign money in the bank on Election Day, obviously deemed unnecessary for the race he had in the bag and worth saving for the next run. It couldn’t have taken much of it to eke out another 400 votes, but it’s a little late now.
Mr. Suozzi will no doubt make some money, keep his name in the news and his hand in public policy, and contemplate a comeback at some later date. If it happens, he wouldn’t be the first politician to suffer an embarrassing loss and resurface later.
As for lessons to be learned, he’s more attuned to Politics 101 than the American Political Novel.
“Lesson One is you can’t take anything for granted,” he said.
Wow so far away from Rotterdam but so close to many town residents hearts and soul. Funny thing is you don't hear Suozzi ripping the winners, whining about the "negative" tone, sour grapes budget shenanigans, uncooperative transitional meetings. Steve Tommasone was an awful supervisor; he is a far worse loser. True to his character, he is showing what a bitter, arrogant, backroom wheeler dealer is is/was who never should have been put in a position of power or influence. He obviously will be remembered for disasterous appointments, lies and deceict and a severe dereliction of duty. The number of Rotterdamians who are incensed over his demeanor in office over his last two months in office is mounting day by day.
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Good luck Frank and his team. I have posted my last entry. I have accepted a job in another state and my laptop is amorte!
You mean the furniture that Steve Tommasone bought and paid for with his own money and used while he was there so the town wouldn't have to pay for furniture? If you are insinuating someone is stealing, maybe you should report it to the RPD, or the State Police?
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They don't have the decency to resign in disgrace. They are too busy blaming the NNTP for their stupidity. Many potential leaders have fled the sinking ship. Others are reluctant to take over a party thousands in the red. 
