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Generally, attack ads don't go out until after Labor Day in election years. After all, most families are not home the week before school begins. If they are home, they certainly are not attending political functions. But an attack ad against Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican running for re-election this November, has already dropped. (See above)  It blasts Blakeman for supporting a five-story apartment complex above the Lawrence train station. Blakeman, while a member of the HempsteadTown Board, spearheaded a zoning change to encourage transit-oriented development near the Lawrence and Inwood LIRR station. Former Democratic Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen supported the "massive" apartment complex. The Hempstead Town board has since repealed the zoning change, but a state supreme court judge ruled they it did not follow state law in nixing the revision. And developers had already begun work. But let's face it, five stories is massive for a sub...

John Ferretti       Don Clavin  Just a quick hit:  It occurs to political old-timers that   perhaps people new to the quirks of   Nassau County politics may not know   how the system works.   For example, there seems to be   amazement and consternation among   Democrats that former Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin, a Garden City Republican, has stayed on the public payroll in some fashion since he resigned as supervisor....to make way for Nassau Legislator John Ferretti, a Levittown Republican,  to be appointed supervisor by the Republican-controlled town board so he can run as an incumbent in the November elections. Democrats are making a big fuss over the Ferretti appointment. But that's the way it has always worked in Republican-controlled Hempstead Town. The Republican town board appoints the new supervisor to run as an incumbent while the former supervisor takes another, often a less ...