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Friday, September 14, 2018
Vol. 67, No. 37
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MINEOLA AIDS W.P. STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL GUIDE TO INVESTIGATING DIOCESES STREET FAIRS WATER TOWER PAGES 35-62
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$100K salaries, patronage at election board
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Dems, GOP split high salaries, nearly 200 jobs based on party affiliation BY R E B ECC A K L A R Nearly two months after his shocking loss to a Democrat, and just two days shy of the end of his term, Anthony Santino resigned as Hempstead town supervisor upon his appointment to the Nassau County Board of Elections. Democrat Robert Troiano, a former senior policy adviser to North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s pick for traffic and parking violations commissioner, was appointed to a position at the Board of Elections after it was discovered that he had racked up more than $80,000 in federal income tax liens. Former North Hempstead Democratic Party Chairman Gerard Terry, currently serving time for state tax fraud, also had a job at the county agency before stepping down when he faced charges. It was one of six politically
appointed taxpayer-funded jobs Terry once simultaneously held. Appointing fallen political players to jobs at the Board of Elections isn’t uncommon. The board is the only agency intentionally and legally set up to be a patronage organization – “whether we like it or not,” according to Lawrence Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University. “You know the expression that politics is like sausage making and you don’t want to spend a lot"of time looking at what goes on in the kitchen,” Levy said. " “This is the ultimate example of sausage making in politics. It’s also one of the legal ones.” Nearly 80 percent of last year’s county Board of Elections budget went toward salaries, wages and fees, with the commissioners of both major parties getting paid more than $180,000 in Continued on Page 81
PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Deirdre Bambrick’s class demonstrated the perfect hallway line as pupils toured the building at Searingtown School on the first day. See story on page 93.
Dems punish NHP inn for booking NRA event B Y R E B E C C A K L A R a scheduled National Rifle As- business who would support The Nassau County Democrats have relocated an upcoming fundraiser from the Inn at New Hyde Park after the catering hall refused to cancel
sociation fundraiser, Nassau County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs said Friday. “Let me make this perfectly clear: the"NRA"is not welcome in our community, and any
putting our children at risk like this does not deserve our business,”" Jacobs said in a statement. Jacobs is the latest in a Continued on Page 81
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