Curran PR winners and a blooper (updated)

                                                                                   

                                                                

While Nassau legislators on Monday spent hours asking about $5.5 million in assessment errors affecting some 4,700 veterans and clergy in Nassau, County Executive Laura Curran was tweeting and emailing constituents and contributors.

Several of her tweets promoted Long Island restaurant week, including the above.

But readers did not react well to mocking Sen. Bernie Sanders. Nor to Curran promoting indoor dining while residents are unable to the vaccines against the coronavirus.

Almost all the 55 responses to her tweet were negative:

• This is pretty gauche and not the best meme to support bernie's popularity. 

• You know there's still a pandemic, right?

• Love to use a viral Bernie meme to put the lives of servers/restaurant workers in danger during a worldwide pandemic!

• Do you have a bad take generating machine that just always makes the worst possible tweets?

• Maybe more people would dine out if there was enough vaccinations to go around?

• My aged parents are 2 months away from vaccine spots. They haven’t eaten out since March. To say this is an odd promotion is putting it mildly. Wedging Bernie in there was a stretch   

• Ma’am this is so tone deaf. Nassau is not ok. We don’t “have” to dress like that for indoor dining, but according to these numbers maybe we should. People in Nassau can barely get covid tests.

• Long Island.. where political affiliation has no relation to being tone-deaf.
  

The posts go on but you get the idea.

Earlier in the day, Curran emailed her thanks to supporters and contributors who donated more than $800,000 in the last six months, boosting her campaign war chest to over $2 million, according to disclosure reports filed earlier this month.

Clearly Curran's fundraising, through multiple emails over the months was a success.

Curran wrote, " "Thanks to incredible supporters like you, we have exceeded our goal and will enter 2021 with strong momentum." 

 

                                                                              

From Laura Curran Monday email

                                              

"Knowing that I can count on supporters like you to help propel us past the finish line allows me to focus on governing and facilitating our medical and our economic recovery from COVID-19. I’m proud that our administration has done that from day one by implementing public health guidelines to help stop the spread, championing relief for businesses and workers and ensuring a responsible reopening," Curran wrote.

 

"While I have fought COVID-19, held the line on property taxes, and worked with our partners in law enforcement to make Nassau the safest community in America, we know that if we don’t win another four years, all of our progress can be wiped away. And that’s why your support is so important. From the bottom of my heart, thank you."

 

But then she urged her contributors to follow her on Facebook, and yes, on Twitter.

                                                                        

UPDATE: A Curran supporter noted that the county executive got 166 "likes" on her Bernie twitter. But she also got 55 posted comments and none were positive; a few were off subject.