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                                                                      Siela Bynoe Upended by redistricting,  Nassau Legis. Siela Bynoe (D-Westbury) today suspended her race for the 4th District Congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City.) Bynoe was drawn out of the district when New York's special master redrew the boundary lines for state and Congressional offices. Her Westbury home landed in the 3rd District, being vacated by U.S. Rep. Thomas Suozzi, a Glen Cove Democrat. The mostly North Shore 3rd district already is swamped with Democratic candidates including public relations executive Robert Zimmerman of Great Neck, Nassau Legis. Joshua Lafazan of Woodbury and Former North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman. The 4th District, which runs from mid-Nassau south,  also is n...

                                                                                  Kevan Abrahams If you need to fill up your tank, you might wait until Wednesday, when state and county sales tax cuts are supposed to take effect. That means the price of regular gasoline, which now averages $4.95 a gallon, could be dropped to an average $4.67 a gallon in two days. That would be a cut of 20 cents a gallon in state sales tax and a reduction of about 8 cents per gallon in Nassau sales tax. The sales tax reductions last through the end of the year. Nassau Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Freeport) submitted a proposed op-ed to the media on Friday in an effort to remind drivers of the coming cut on gasoline sales taxes. He also noted that county Democrats first pressed for Nassau to cut its...

                                                                           Dorothy Goosby Hempstead Town Republican board members, in an unheralded, unpublicized move, last week unanimously approved  Republican Supervisor's Don Clavin's appointment of senior Council member Dorothy Goosby -- the only Democrat on the seven-member  board -- as his deputy supervisor. Goosby, 84, of Hempstead Village, is a well-known civil rights activist on Long Island. She is the first African-American to serve as a Deputy Town Supervisor. She was the first African-American elected to the town board in 1999. The board sweetened the j...

                                                                                          Local elected officials from both Nassau and Suffolk gathered on an Oyster Bay beach today to denounce a little-known bill pending in Albany that would move town and county elections from odd-numbered years to even-number years. The officials, mostly Republican but some Democrats, said the bill being pushed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Albany Democratic majority, will kill local control by merging the suburban and rural races with presidential, gubern...

Two Nassau Democrats today dropped out of the November state senate election races  -- one an incumbent and the other a hopeful candidate -- because of changed district boundaries. State Sen. John Brooks of Seaford told Newsday's Yancey Roy today that he is not going to run again after redistricting moved him out of senate District 8, which had straddled the South Shore from Nassau to Suffolk, into a newly drawn District 5, which runs from mid-Nassau south. John Brooks Michael Pernick of Rockville Centre, who was the Democratic candidate for State Senate in the old District 9, sent out an email today announcing he was suspending his campaign because the final district map released two days ago moves his home into District 6, which also runs from mid-Nassau south. Michael Pernick Where at the Republican candidate anouncements? (see update below) Presumably, Republican Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, a Malverne village trustee, is still running for the open 9th Senate District seat...

Final Congressional District Lines                                                                        New York's special master for redistricting released his final maps in the early hours of Saturday morning, leaving analysis of the confusing lines to truly dedicated political pundits and leaders. But instead of just tweaks to the first maps, the final versions look much different from the districts first proposed. Suffolk's Congressional districts, for example, went from two north-south districts in the proposed map to two mostly east-west districts in the final version -- which likely helps the re-election chances of Republican incumbent, U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino of Sayville. In Nassau , District 4, being vacated by U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice of Garden City, looks pretty much the same.  But it still...

                                                                              Meeting notice for the Nassau Legislature posted on legislature's webpage at 1 p.m. Sunday _______________________________________________________________________________________ This may seem like nit-picking but transparency is all the rage in government these days. Transparency in government means making government's business public. Then we have the Republican-controlled Nassau County Legislature. At 1:08 p.m. Sunday, the County Legislature's webpage features a notice that the next county legislative meeting is May 9 at 1 p.m., the usual legislative meeting time. (See above). May 9 was two weeks ago. Yet, there is a county legislative meeting tomorrow, but not at 1 p.m.  and not in the county legislative cham...

  OLD SENATE MAP AND NEW SENATE MAP                                                                                State Senate Districts before 2022 redistricting                                                                           ...

  OLD MAP  AND  NEW MAP                                                                                             Current U.S. Congressional District Lines Proposed U.S. Congressional District Lines       Though New York's special master is expected to issue his final recommendations for the state's redistricting on Friday, his proposed new lines for U.S. Congressional districts came out today. First, something called Davesredistricting.org posted the new lines, then Nick Reisman at State of politics posted the same thing so they are probably accurate. Here is the link for Dave's redistricting org. If you can figure it out, it allegedly gives you the details. https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::22a818db-e3bd-4246-9...