Nassau Election commissioners reappointed; salaries hiked to $225,000
Nassau legislators voted on Monday to reappoint Republican elections commissioner James Moriarty and Democrat elections commissioner James Scheuerman to new two-year terms beginning in January. Not that they had a choice. State law dictates that the party chairmen choose their party's election commissioners; legislators can only ratify their choice. And Nassau Republican Chairman Joseph Cairo submitted Moriarty's nomination while Nassau Democrat Chairman Jay Jacobs filed Scheuerman's nomination. Presumably, both Cairo and Jacobs agreed to raise the commissioner's salaries to $225,000 a year from $210,000 because both Republican and Democrats voted for the raises without comment. The ordinance they voted on, however, was factually wrong; it says the commissioners salaries had not been raised for seven years; ...