LIuncoverednews

                                                                                    Jay Jacobs (from News12 Long Island) Pot, meet kettle. State and Nassau Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs today in emails to supporters and on Facebook demanded state Republicans answer five questions as the GOP convention begins in Garden City. Oddly, Republicans could throw some of the same basic questions back to the Democrats. For example, Jacobs wants to know if Republicans will recognize Joe Biden "as the duly elected President." Republicans could ask when leading Democrats will recognize that Donald Trump was the "duly elected president" in 2016. Democrats last week hosted Hillary Clinton as their keynote speaker at their party's state convention. Clinton is a former First Lady, New York State senator and U.S. Secretary of State who ran against Trump in 2016. Since she lost, Clinton has declared Trump "an illegitimate president." Jacobs also wants to know when Repub

                                                                                    As predicted, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned under pressure last August,  launched his comeback bid by releasing his first commercial today,  mocking Attorney General Letitia James's sexual harassment accusations against him and accusing her of misconduct. He also emailed the commercial to supporters, asking them to watch it, and then share with friends and family. James last year released a scathing report on Cuomo's handling of the coronavirus cases in nursing homes, accusing him of under-counting the number of deaths that occurred after he ordered recovering patients into the long care facilities regardless of infection status. Nobody paid much attention. But then she released a report accusing him of illegally sexually harassing at least 11 women. After every fellow elected Democrat in the state called for him to step down, Cuomo resigned but declared he was innocent of all accusatio

                                                                                   Bruce Blakeman takes on Kathy Hochul on Fox News last month In terms of public relations wars, Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman won his first fight against Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul today. Blakeman promised during his campaign that he would issue an executive order allowing school districts to drop the state's mask mandate for children. During his first week in office, he issued the promised order after weeks of pleas from parents to "unmask our kids." He also appeared on national news defending his decision and attacking Hochul for mandating masks for school children but never providing data to show why mask mandates were needed in the fight against the coronavirus. Hochul huffed and puffed and said she had state law on her side in requiring school masks. She threatened to withhold funding from any district that made masks optional. She continued to fight even when a stat

                                                                           Gov. Kathy Hochul at a news conference today While pundits may focus on Gov. Kathy Hochul personal favorability ratings or voters' attitudes on mask mandates, the significant findings are in the back of today's Siena College Research Institute poll. Results show that voters across New York hate bail reform, are anxious about rising crime and, most noteworthy, are very worried about inflation. Inflation worries are more likely to sway the vote in November than a politician's personal favorability. Remember when James Carville, a strategist for then president Bill Clinton, advised in the early 1990s:  "It's the economy, stupid." Other than war, its always the economy; people vote their pocketbooks, whether they are angry over high taxes, scared by a crashing stock market, or frightened by rising inflation. Siena reports that more than 9 in 10 voters across the state, from all parties,  sa

Final figures are in for Nassau sales tax collections from last year and revenues total $426.4 million over budgeted by former Democratic County Executive Laura Curran. That's a 42 percent increase over the total sales taxes budgeted for 2021. Is this huge sales tax surplus a sign of a booming economy? Or a result of soaring inflation? (Doubtful because, so far,  inflation fortunately is running nowhere near that high.) No, this is just another example of the bad budgeting done by Curran's crack budget team, which is now the same crack budget team working for new Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman. The bumbling budget team never seems to get any projection right, putting out financial predictions that are off by tens of millions of dollars each year, sometimes a half billion dollars.  But don't forget, the county's financial control board, The Nassau Interim Finance Authority, also signed off on Curran's inaccurate 2021 sales tax projection. In fact, they sa

                                                                                                                                                                 House owned by Harendra Singh and wife, from a Nassau County Dept. of Assessment 2008 photo While Former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and his wife await sentencing for taking bribes from Oyster Bay concessionaire Harendra Singh -- and as the federal judge hearing their case appears ready to throw the book at them -- Singh is still fighting foreclosure on his Syosset mansion, even blaming Covid as the reason why he hasn't paid his mortgage since 2014. Five years ago, a court referee then calculated Singh owed nearly $3 million in principle, interest and penalties to lender Cit Bank, which issued the mortgage on Singh's 2-acre estate. Nassau County says the house, built in 2008, is currently worth $2.138 million (lowered from $2.62 million last year after a successful assessment challenge.) A state appellate court i

                                                                                   Hempstead Town Supervisor holds letters that he says opposes apartment plan during a news conference of local Republican officials today Nassau Republican town, county and state officials gathered in East Meadow today to declare victory in squashing Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal to require all municipalities to allow a minimum of one apartment or "accessory dwelling unit" on single-family lots. Led by Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin, the officials cheered reports that Hochul had withdrawn her plan, which was tucked into her 5,000 page budget. Progressives had backed the plan as a way to provide affordable housing for young and old. Building and construction contractors, who have given hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to Hochul, also favored the initiative, saying it would create jobs for their industry. But both Democratic and Republican suburban po