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Democrat lawyer prepares to challenge Donnelly for Nassau DA

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                                                                               From Aloise Linked in Post A female Democratic lawyer backed by former Democratic Congresswoman and former Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice is trying to gather support to make a run against Republican District Attorney Anne Donnelly next year. Nicole Aloise, the daughter of a prominent New York City judge,  has a fundraiser scheduled  tomorrow night at the Garden City home of developer Peter Florey, president of the New York State Builders Association. Tickets range from in price from $250 to $20,000. Aloise says in a post announcing her campaign on Linked In that she has been a prosecutor in both the Nassau and Queens District Attorney offices. A quick internet search shows no other runs for political office or political activities. Donnelly, of Garden City,  was relatively unknown in 2021 when she defeated then State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Long Beach Democrat, for the  District Attorney's seat vac

Is everyone a Nazi now?

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                                                                                     Nassau County Exective Bruce Blakeman (r) with Stuart Varney on Fox Business News today For a long time, the favored slur against opponents was to call them racists. Now it seems that the preferred smear is Nazi. Anytime anybody expresses an unpopular view or a makes a controversial proposal, they are labeled Nazi's. Critics for years have called former President Donald Trump a Nazi. Some conservatives liken efforts by President Joe Biden's administration to censure social media posts during the covid pandemic to Adolph Hitler's totalitarian Nazi regime. Nassau Legis. Arnold Drucker, a Plainview Democrat, joined the chorus yesterday at the county legislative meeting. He compared a proposal by Republican County Executive Bruce and supported by Nassau's Republican legislators that bars biological males from competing against woman or girls teams in county sports facilities to Nazi polici