Lowest Bidder or Highest Contributor

Is it so much to ask that our government be honest and open? Apparently not if your name is Tom Suozzi. Take a look at these numbers from the County Legislature's hearing last week where Pete Schmitt (Minority Leader) and Ed Mangano questioned the Suozzi Administration and his lapdog Democratic majority over $8 million in pay to play contracts that the Democrats rammed through.

• $1.5 million to E&A Restoration - contributed $35,000 to Suozzi
• $2 million to RBA Group - contributed $4,500 to Suozzi
• $290,000 to Gibbons, Esposito & Boyce Engineers - contributed $4,500 to Suozzi
• $515,000 to Smith Valuation/Standard Valuation Services – contributed $18,500 to Suozzi

Well gee. Isn't this all just a little too coincidental? Don't we have the right to expect the government to give contracts to the lowest bidder, not to the highest contributor? Is Suozzi that desperate to win his reelection that he's resorted to making a buy-in to the county contracts like it is some kind of a poker game?

Let's send Taxing Tom and his fellow Spending Dems a message this November.