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Bruce Blakeman   Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, the first Jewish county executive, has been outspoken in his support of Israel after the savage butchery of women, children, senior citizens and other civilians by Hamas last Saturday. Blakeman ordered increased police patrols around houses of worship and religious sites in the county, lit up the Old Courthouse dome in Blue and White, and hosted a countywide rally and supply drive in Eisenhower Park to support Israel, an event that drew some 6,000 people. He also reached out to Muslims, saying in a letter, that he believes "the vast majority of Muslims are peace loving. It is important that the world does not equate the actions of blood-thirsty terrorists with the Muslim religion. Blakeman added,  "I will not tolerate violence against the Muslim community.                           ...

Kaiman slams DeSena After weeks of Republican mailings labeling former North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman as a "serial tax hiker" and accusing him of corruption, the Great Neck Democrat finally is punching back. In a recent mailing, Kaiman ties incumbent Republican supervisor Jennifer DeSena to disgraced U.S. Rep. George Santos, the 3rd District Republican who has admitted making up most of his public resume while pleading innocent to a 13-count federal indictment charging him with financial fraud and lying. Kaiman puts DeSena and Santos in the "same lying, far right sinking ship."      DeSena acknowledged to Newsday that she endorsed Santos, but “I was a victim of George Santos’ lies just like everyone else.” Until now, Kaiman, who served as the town's supervisor from 2004 through 2013, has been stressing unity. "Let's stay positive," he said in a campaign video. "Lets' look forward. Let's do this together."  In his mailer, ...

                                                                              Nassau's 712-member Correction Officers Benevolent Assocation approved a new contract by a wide margin, COBA president Brian Sullivan announced last night, after the close of a three-day voting period. As he says, 97 percent of the membership voted, 82 percent voted to ratify the new deal. If the county legislature approves the contract followed by the county's financial control board, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, this means for the first time since the end of 2017, Nassau's five largest unions will have working contracts. Details about the deal were kept quiet, so that few people in the county even knew there was a new agreement. There had been no public announcement by Republican County Executive Bruce Blak...

            In what must be one of the best kept secrets in Nassau government history, members of the county's correction officer's union have been voting on a new contract yesterday and today. The vote is expected to end by 5 p.m. But there has been no public announcement of the new deal by either Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman or officers of Nassau's Correction Officers Benevolent Association. Maybe the deal has been kept secret because correction officers in Sept. 2022 voted down a new contract proposed by Blakeman and COBA president Brian Sullivan. In what appeared to be retaliation for the deal's rejection, Blakeman then brought back former Nassau Sheriff Michael Sposato as the county's Corrections Commissioner, in charge of the East Meadow jail. Union members didn't like Sposato, a former jail cook who was named acting sheriff in 2008 by then-Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, a Democrat, and kept on by  Republican County Executiv...

Gillen-Thomas rivalry:  Former Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen of Rockville Centre and lameduck State Sen. Kevin Thomas of Levittown have been tweeting and emailing supporters every day in their quest to run as the Democratic candidate next year in the 4th Congressional District against incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Anthony D'Esposito of Island Park. Presumably Gillen and Thomas will face off in a primary. (Perennial candidate Pat Maher also is seeking the Democratic nod but she has yet to score a victory in any of the races she has entered.)  Laura Gillen But how will Democratic voters choose between the two? They are running on the same issues and taking the same shots against D'Esposito. Is there a secret Democratic campaign script? Kevin Thomas Consider their latest salvo's against D'Esposito as a government shutdown appeared likely. First Thomas:                                  ...

There's little more than six weeks until local town and county elections on Nov. 7. That's usually prime campaigning season. But while GOP has been campaigning by mail, social media and on television; there seems to be little Democrat response at this point. Take North Hempstead. The town had been Democratic controlled for 40 years but then Jennifer DeSena, a Democrat running as a Republican, won the supervisor's job two years ago. Several Republicans were elected to the town board but Democrats still retained the majority. This year, former Democratic Supervisor Jon Kaiman is challenging DeSena.  The Nassau GOP has been mailing campaign attacks against Kaiman since August. Last week it aired its first Anti-Kaiman commercials on local television stations. The tv ad labels Kaiman,who served from 2004 through 2013,  as a "serial tax hiker" who raised his own pay by 33 percent, while saying DeSena cut taxes. And where is Kaiman? Like DeSena, he's mak...