Nassau: Back to the future with county signs

                                                                         


               
                                                                                                                                                                

Political branding is back.

Notice how prominent Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman's name is on the county sign for Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn.

Remember when Democrat Laura Curran took her name off of some 70 county signs after she was first took office in 2018?

The drive to remove elected officials' names on county signs hit its heyday back then. 

It had been a long-standing practice for politicians to put their names on all county signs and other public property. Former Republican County Executive Ed Mangano even had his name printed on the small pencils used to score golf games at Eisenhower Park.

But for a short while, good government types questioned the practice.

Here's what what Curran told Newsday in 2018.

She criticized the signs as self-promotional and a waste of taxpayer funds. "These are your roads, these are your parks,” Curran said. “They’re not mine. You pay for them.”

Credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa

Nassau Republicans never really went along with the name removal.

Now names are back.

Christopher Morley Park is in Republican Legis. Mazi Melesa Pilip's 10th District. It's right next to  Presiding Officer Rich Nicolello's (R-New Hyde Park) 9th District. 

Oddly. their names are not on the sign.



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