The plot thickened this week in the union fight against Nassau County Local Law 315-12, a measure that gives County Executive Ed Mangano authority to make more than $40 million in budget cuts without legislative approval.
According to Courthouse News, a complaint from the Nassau County Sheriff's Correction Officers Benevolent Association (COBA) alleges that Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt, R-Massapequa, adjourned the May 21 legislative meeting, and, after speaking with Mangano via telephone, Schmitt reconvened the legislators to vote on the measure.
Republicans brought in Legislator Dennis Dunne, R-Levittown, who was recovering from leg surgery, via speaker phone, according to the complaint, to secure a 10-0 majority vote.
Democratic Legislators left the chamber and did not vote.
"Local Law 315-2010 remains pending for Mangano's signature," according to Courthouse News Service. "Under County Charter Section 153, should he not approve or disapprove the measure within 30 days, it will become a county law."
The union wants the law declared void for illegal procedures, including lack of a quorum, illegal session, and open meeting violations.
NIFA Director Blasts County's Attempt to Borrow Money
Nassau County is seeking to bypass the state oversight board managing its finances and borrow funds from New York State, a New York Post columnist wrote.
George J. Marlin, director of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, wrote:
If the state Legislature goes along, the move will quickly backfire on Nassau — and rapidly prove disastrous for other local New York governments.
NIFA imposed a control period on the county in January 2011 after the state watchdog determined that Nassau’s budget would reportedly run a deficit of approximately $176 million in the 2011 fiscal year. While the county sued to try and block the NIFA takeover, a Nassau judge upheld the decision.
To read more on the story, click the headline.
Then Mangano "won" the election based on a handful of votes, and the ONE (ONE!!!) cop who was guarding the voting machines over that Thanksgiving weekend before they got counted somehow managed to get a little oh-so-conveniently DEAD a few years later in a hit and run on the highway. Do THAT math, Nassau! If there's cronyism involved, and with the GOP that's ALWAYS the case, I think from the look of things I'm liking that bunch a whole lot less. Get rid of Mangano! We are one of the richest suburbs in the world and the guy can't balance the budget without privatizing everything? Take a nice long look at the history of the Third Reich if you want to see where all this privatization is going to get us. Go ahead, don't just take my word for it. Look up the history yourselves. It's right there in black and white in the history books, and if we ignore that lesson we WILL repeat it.
And THAT's interesting... "Then Mangano "won" the election based on a handful of votes, and the ONE (ONE!!!) cop who was guarding the voting machines over that Thanksgiving weekend before they got counted somehow managed to get a little oh-so-conveniently DEAD a few years later in a hit and run on the highway."
I try to speak in long and though out sentences but sometimes you have to just call it the way it is - When a discussion is based on stupidity it doesn't even pay to try to argue... Third Reich - what are you talking about? Everyone who tries to cut the huge deficit is a Nazi? You truly are an IDIOT!
The greatest piece of Republican bluster involves the coliseum. Remember the Lighthouse project? 100% privately funded other than road reconstruction (the M5 is so good right now right?) mixed use property, real office buildings with retail, parks and hotel/conference centers. Thus real full-time jobs with sustainability for a growing tax base. The Mangano plan which, I voted for, since I don't want to lose the Islanders, was a taxpayer funded-coliseum only junk effort, that realistically deserved to be voted down. Why did Lighthouse go down? Kate Murray and the Nassau Republican's couldn't handle Suozzi and the Dems getting the credit for the deal, so the block the construction permits in the town of Hempstead. Pure blatant politics over the public good. Nothing more, nothing less. They would rather be in charge of a declining county with a bad economy than risk the chance of being out of power in a great place to live.
Sorry union worker, you are not going to get your way -- in fact, your glory days of high wages and fat pensions will soon end. Way to go Mangano!
As Rodney King put it, "Can't we all just get along?"
Mangano is one-and-done. He is, without question, the most incompetent, empty County Executive we have ever had. The man is a poor speaker, not particularly. bright, unethical, and is in way over his head. The majority of his appointments have been equally subpar, with little concern for qualifications or ability level. I have seen firsthand the woeful inadequacy of thses people. Suozzi pulled some boners, too, but he had vision. He brought the County up from the brink of bankruptcy and ran it like a business, making enemies along the way. Mangano is done. He'll get the judgeship he was promised, don't worry. But anything financial? Forget it.
We could have had a 100% privately-funded Lighthouse development, and Kate Murry and her Republican BUFFOONS would never let it happen. Of course, we could have had a money-making deal with the August 2011 referendum, and Jay Jacobs and his Democratic BUFFOONS would never let that happen. What a lose-lose, and then we get to go to hockey games and concerts in Brooklyn...
PrimeTime: Please don't cite a low-life drug addict with 63 deaths on his head, as someone we should ever, EVER listen to.
Not speaking to the comparison's use here, although Eileen's invocation does include more historical context than most I have heard.
"Executive Mangano Makes New Push for Nassau Coliseum Development" http://fios1news.com/longisland/node/14966