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Friday, September 11, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 37
BEST OF THE NORTH HEDGE FUND FOUNDER STATE LAUNCHES PORTAL CHARGED BY FEDS SHORE WINNERS FOR ABSENTEE BALLOTS PAGES 27-70
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Hirsch offered to end mayoral campaign: email
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‘BLACK JACK’
Trustee sought dropping of charges, firing of village officials in exchange BY R O S E W E L D ON Flower Hill Trustee and mayoral candidate Kate Hirsch said in an email to Mayor Brian Herrington, her opponent, that she would cease her campaign if village staff members were fired and harassment charges against her were dropped. The email, provided to Blank Slate Media by Herrington, was sent July 8, just over two months before the village election being held on Tuesday. “In a good faith effort to resolve the litigation I recently commenced (and other costly legal matters currently pending) please consider this an Offer to Compromise,” Hirsch wrote in the email. The message is the latest in a nine-month election cycle that has following the rescheduling of the village elections, originally planned for the spring. Herrington, who took office after the death of Mayor Robert
McNamara in April, is running for mayor under the Flower Hill Party banner, with incumbents Deputy Mayor Randall Rosenbaum and Trustee Gary Lewandowski on his slate. McNamara, who was running for a trustee position under the same party label at the time of his death, will remain on the ballot under the rules of an executive order, and the party has said that resident Claire Dorfman would be appointed should he win. Under the Liberty Party banner, Hirsch, who has been a trustee for three years, is running for mayor, with residents Diane Turner, Jay Silverman and Jeffrey Greilsheimer rounding out her slate. February saw Hirsch challenge the Flower Hill Party’s petition to have it thrown out, only for the Nassau County Board of Elections to rule in the party’s favor. Hirsch then filed an ethics complaint against Flower Hill’s chief elecContinued on Page 83
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ROSLYN LANDMARK SOCIETY VIA INSTAGRAM
General of the Armies John J. Pershing, one of the most celebrated figures in American military history, visits Sycamore Lodge in Roslyn Harbor in January 1921. Sept. 13 marks 160 years since Pershing’s birth in 1860.
Trustee alleges corruption over F. Hill planning board BY R O S E W E L D ON The Village of Flower Hill Board of Trustees heard arguments Tuesday night over a proposal to transfer planning board powers to the trustees, but the strongest voice against the idea came from one of its
own members. Trustee Kate Hirsch said she was completely opposed to the idea even though the trustees voted to disband the Planning Board last year. The hearing took place months after Hirsch, a practicing attorney, filed an Article
78 petition, which seeks to compel a government agency or official to refrain from doing something it should not do. She alleged that village officials were working with St. Francis Hospital to assist in expansions into residenContinued on Page 93
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