No Surprise. Police endorse State Senate GOP candidates

(News Release Continued below)


The gossip on Saturday was that Nassau's Superior Officer's Association had reached a new contract deal with Democratic County Executive Laura Curran and was pressing the Police Benevolent Association to follow suit.

Curran acknowledged the new SOA agreement yesterday in her letter to the legislature about her proposed $3.3 billion 2021 budget. But she has yet to release any details.

"I want to make clear as well that, as our County workers have stood by us in this difficult time, I will
stand by them. As one important example, the proposed budget continues supporting the new Detectives Association, Inc. and Superior Officers Association labor agreements," she wrote. (The Detectives Association reached an agreement last year. The PBA is the only police union without an announced deal.)

A spokesman said Curran has not put out a press release on SOA deal because the union membership has yet to approve it, making its terms still tentative.

Republicans suspected that Curran was attempting to push through police deals during a pandemic to win support for the sinking re-election prospects this November of Long Island Democratic state senators,  who voted en masse to eliminate bail for most crimes and whose progressive colleagues in the city have been demanding defunding of police departments.

Despite GOP suspicions, police endorsing Democratic senators seemed very unlikely.

It turns out they are endorsing their Republican challengers.

See the headline in above news release. "POLICE UNIONS UNITE AGAINST STATE SENATE DEMOCRATS"


The only Long Island Democratic senators not targeted are State Sen. John Brooks (D-Seaford) who is running unopposed after the courts knocked his Republican challenger off the ballot as ineligible, and Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach).


Ironically, Kaminsky has acknowledged that he helped write the bail reform law.


The Nassau SOA president and Detectives Association president are quoted in the release. And the Nassau PBA also signed on.

So if the Nassau labor deals were intended to help Democrats, they didn't work.

Here is the rest of the news release.







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