Wink county race announced before secret Suozzi-Gillen meeting

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 Democrats, held a secret hearing on budget moves by Republican President Donald Trump and the Republican controlled House of Representatives.

They invited the public to attend but wouldn't give the location of the briefing unless you first registered -- apparently to keep out crazy critics ie Republicans.


 

Turns out the briefing was at Hofstra, according the News 12.

And apparently it was successful in quieting critics: there were no reports of demonstrations or loud heckling during yesterday's event.


 

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  1. AnonymousMarch 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM

    Real media went, not hacks like Celeste were fired.

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