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                                                                             Gov. Kathy Hochul Going into this year's elections, Gov. Kathy Hochul is not as popular as headlines suggest while Nassau's Democratic state senators should be worried. A Siena College Research Institute Poll this week found New York voters split over Hochul's support in in November. Asked if Hochul, a Buffalo Democrat elevated to governor when Andrew Cuomo resigned in August, wins the June party primary and is the Democratic candidate for governor, 43 percent of voters statewide said they would vote for Hochul. But 43 percent of voters statewide said they would prefer someone else. Another 14 percent were undecided. And this is after Hochul has been in the news nearly daily for the  past seven months, mostly mandating masks for school children until this month. The Siena poll also indicates a bleak outlook for Nassau's Democratic state senators if they don't modify radical revisions they

                                                                                   Former U.S. Senator Al D'amato talks next to Anthony D'Esposito (right)  at news conference Monday It's not unusual for elected officials to have competing news conferences as one tries to draw media attention away from the other. But the dueling pressers are almost always between elected officials from different political parties,  rather then from the same side of the aisle. Not this Monday. Republican Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony D'Esposito announced a news conference at 11:45 a.m. Monday in front of the Island Park fire house to kick off his campaign to win the Congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City.). A few hours before D'Esposito put out his alert on Sunday,  Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced a news conference at 12 p.m. Monday in front of the Nassau University Medical Center to oppose the proposed takeover of the East

   Kevin Thomas Taylor Darling  Long Island Democrats are aghast -- Aghast! --  that appointments to the board of the Nassau County Medical Center are political. State Sen. Kevin Thomas (D-Levittown) and Assemb. Taylor Darling (D-Hempstead) have sponsored  legislation to switch control of the East Meadow hospital from the county to Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state, saying they want to "depoliticize" its operations. Thomas told ABCnews yesterday that Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman's appointment of "his top Republican donor as chairman clearly shows this was done for a political reason." Thomas and Darling are Nassau's version of French police commander Louis Renault, who was  "s hocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" in the movie Casablanca.. Where have these guys been? When haven't politics been involved in appointment of members and chairman of the medical center board,  regardless of which political

                                                                                    Matthew Bruderman and Bruce Blakeman (from Globe News Wire) Nassau Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman appears to be paying no attention to a court ruling that voided his appointment of a new chairman for the Nassau University Medical Center and restored an eleventh-hour appointment to the hospital board by outgoing Democratic County Executive Laura Curran. Blakeman sent out an alert today that he will be holding a news conference Monday with firefighters, police and community members to oppose a Democratic proposal to put the East Meadow hospital under state control.  Present at the news conference, he said, will be "NuHealth Chairman Matthew Bruderman." NuHealth is the shorthand name of the Nassau Health Care Corporation, the public benefit corporation that has run the medical center and related facilities since 1999. Former Nassau Democratic legislator David Mejias successfully argu