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Two new District Court judges are expected to be appointed by the Nassau legislature this month while  a new Nassau Surrogate will take office next January. All are considered competent lawyers, but of course politics play a part in the moves. James Saladino, a Suffolk District Court judge, has been recommended by Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman to be appointed a judge in Nassau's 4th District Court, which covers Oyster Bay and Glen Cove. James Saladino is the brother of Republican Oyster Bay Supervisor Joe Saladino and is the son of a late Republican Supreme Court Justice Joseph J. Saladino. James Saladino, who served in various Suffolk legal position, must have moved into Nassau. Also recommended for appointment is Maria Boultadakis to Nassau's 2nd District Court in Hempstead. A law clerk for three successive Republican Supreme Court justices,  Boudtadakis is the daughter of Nick Boudtakakis, owner of the Sands Castle in Franklin Square. The restaurant and caterin...

Former Nassau legislator, former North Hempstead Town Board member  and former North Hempstead Town Clerk Wayne Wink is the choice of Nassau Democrats  to run for county comptroller against incumbent Republican Elaine Phillips this fall. Wayne Wink Wink's candidacy was announced at a local Port Washington political event Saturday morning. Currently minority counsel for Nassau's Democratic legislators, Wink, of Rosyln, has been involved in Nassau politics seemingly forever...before and after Democrats won and lost a majority on the county legislature  He started as a legislative aide to the late legis. Barbara Johnson, a Demoratic member of the first legislature to take office in 1996 after the former Board of Supervisors was abolished as unconstitutional. He ran for North Hempstead Town Supervisor in 2021 but lost to Jennifer DeSena, a registered Democrat running as a Republican. The Wink announcement came before U.S. Reps. Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen, both Nassau Democra...