Defeated Nassau Democrats are still campaigning

While Nassau Republicans are basking in their victories, Nassau Democrats don't seem to realize the election is over. And that they mostly lost.

Defeated Democratic Congressional candidate Keith Corbett and former Nassau County Attorney Jared Kasschau, partners in the ubiquitous Harris Beach law firm, are heading up a new political law practice to "provide counsel to candidates, corporations, local governments, political committees, trade asociations and others engaged in the electoral process, " according to a Harris Beach press release.



Corbett, who is also Malverne's mayor, ran a primary against former Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen this spring for the Democratic nomination to the Fourth District Congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City.)

He was supported by state and Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs and touted his experience in working with both Democrats and Republicans.  He lost to Gillen.

Kasschau was appointed county attorney by Democratic County Executive Laura Curran. He resigned a few months before Curran lost her bid for re-election last year. But he has remained active in politics. He now serves on the county's redistricting commission, appointed by the Democrats.

The press release about their new venture was issued Nov. 4. On Nov. 8, election day,  Democrats lost many races: Democratic State Sen. Anna Kaplan of Great Neck lost to Jack Martins, another Harris Beach partner; Democrat Robert Zimmerman, a public relations executive in Great Neck, lost to Republican financier George Santos for the 3rd Congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove); Gillen lost to Republican Hempstead Town Board member Anthony D'Esposito, Democratic State Sen. John Brooks of Seaford, lost to Republican Nassau Legis. Steve Rhoads of Bellmore, Democratic candidate Ken Moore lost to Republican Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick for the open state senate seat vacated by former State Sen. Todd Kaminsky of Long Beach, and Republican Assemb. Judy Griffin of Rockville Centre lost to her Republican predecessor Brian Curran.

Gillen too, appears to have not given up even though she lost the Congressional seat to D'Esposito, a retired New York City police officer who also works at the Nassau Board of Elections.

Gillen campaigned primarily on abortion rights and gun control. Like all of Nassau Republicans, D'Esposito campaigned against New York's cashless bail laws, which the GOP says has led to increased crime throughout the state and county.

Gillen said she always opposed the cashless bail law, but D'Esposito pointed out in campaign pieces that she supported the Nassau Democrats in Albany who voted for it.

Yesterday Gillen posted on her campaign Facebook site that New York needs to get rid of cashless bail. As of mid-today, she had received 182 comments on the post.


News12 broadcast her call to get rid of cashless bail all day yesterday.

So the question is what is Gillen, of Rockville Centre,  running for now? 

Best guess is that she goes after D'Esposito again in 2024.

Don't forget, according to Newsday,  Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs said Gillen told him that Congress "was a dream of hers since she was a little girl,"






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