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Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has invited county legislators -- presumably among a select group of individuals --to review raw footage of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Hamas, a terrorist group that controls the Gaza strip along Israel's border, murdered and mutilated more than 1,000 Israeli women, children and elderly, took more than 100 Israeli citizens hostage and then gleefully posted video's of the carnage on social media. Most of the videos are so horrific that they were censured and blocked from view. As a result, some Hamas and Palestine supporters deny there were any killings. They have torn down posters of the Israel hostages and characterize Israel as an oppressive colonizer that denies Palestinians food, water and freedom. Carefully chosen federal politicians and journalists have viewed the raw footage, to remove doubts about the authenticity of the attacks. Now Blakeman, through the United Jewish Federation of New York, is offering a viewing

                                                                          Remember Harendra Singh? The Oyster Bay restaurateur was the star witness against former Republican Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, his wife Linda and the late Republican Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto. Singh, who was a Mangano family friend for more than 20 years, pleaded guilty in 2016 to eight felonies, admitting that he bribed Mangano, his wife and Oyster Bay officials in a scheme to convince the town to guarantee $20 million in private loans to Singh.  Mangano was convicted of pressuring town officials to approve the loans and is serving 12 years in prison. His wife, who received a low-show job from Singh for four years,  served five months in prison followed by a short home confinement. Venditto was acquitted but died broken and nearly bankrupt after fighting Singh's allegations.  Three courts have since found the loan guarantees, which were never approved by the Oyster Bay Town Board, to be il

                                                                               FACEBOOK POST ABOUT TODAY'S GOP RALLY How does former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Glen Cove Democrat, always seem to know when and where there are rallies happening for Nassau Legis. Mazi Pilip, his Republican opponent in  the Feb. 13 special election for the vacant 3rd District Congressional seat? Mazi Pilip Pilip, a black Orthodox Jew from Great Neck who served on the Israeli Defense Force before immigrating to the U.S, has refused all debates with Suozzi except for one News12 face-to-face on Feb. 8.  For the most part she has allowed a spokesman to answer questions and avoids confrontations. Update:  Pix11 has scheduled an "exclusive televised political forum" between Pilip and Suozzi on Jan. 30 (Tuesday) at 7-8 p.m., the station has announced. But Suozzi seems to show up where ever she does appear. Pilip had her first press conference last Thursday,  outside a temporary shelter in Queens housi

    Suozzi captures endorsement The Great Neck-based "Jewish World" just endorsed former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Glen Cove Democrat , in his race against Nassau Legis. Mazi Pilip in the Feb. 13 special election for the vacant 3rd District Congressional seat. That has to be a blow to Pilip, a black Orthodox Jew from Great Neck who served in the Israel Defense Force before immigrating to the United States: A Jewish publication from her home base going with Suozzi, a Catholic Democrat. Suozzi had served three terms as the 3rd District Congressman until he gave up the seat in 2022 to run unsuccessfully for New York governor. Though running on the Republican and Conservative lines, Pilip is a registered Democrat. It's particularly stinging because it comes just as Pilip and U.S. Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, a first term Republican representing the 4th Congressional District, held a news conference "to denounce the open borders and sanctuary city politics of the Biden Admi

Talk about dysfunction. The five new and 14 returning Nassau legislators met to conduct business for the first time since the November election and it was a near chaos. Legislators ranted, interrupted each other or declared untruths to be true. Howard Kopel It got so bad that the legislature's new presiding officer Howard Kopel, a Lawrence Republican who had served as deputy presiding officer for years, turned off the microphone of Legis. Siela Bynoe, a Westbury Democrat. Both are veteran lawmakers. Kopel happens to be white; Bynoe is black. But there is no indication that race played a factor. Siela Byone The fight was about $15 million being set aside for contractual services out of some $385 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds awarded to Nassau in 2021. Some $86 million has been spent and $118 million appropriated, leaving $262 million be spent by the end of next year. Democrats said they wanted the $15 million increased to $19 million and then $1 million allocated