Friday, August 7, 2009

The Truth According to Tom Suozzi

Tom Suozzi's website, like his tenure as County Executive, is chock full o'features. He's got a great looking flash introduction, complete with a picture of himself walking on the screen and selling his snake oil medicine. He's got plenty of talk about the lighthouse, a twitter feed and a blog. All of this is great, for a man who's running for governor.

Suozzi has a strange way about the truth. He's got four things highlighted. One is the lighthouse. Well, I haven't met anyone who outright opposes the Lighthouse. Everyone who has concerns and caveats and wants them addressed by the Town and the villages, the proper forums to deal with zoning concerns. Suozzi either doesn't get that or just doesn't care, since the actual governing part of being CE seems to be beneath him.

The second is Nassau's tremendous turnaround. That's almost as big a lie as the third, property tax relief. Suozzi's spent eight years hiking spending and raiding the kitchen cabinets of the people. Just look at your tax bill and how it has exploded since Suozzi took office. Turnaround? The county's infrastructure is falling apart. NIFA cites Suozzi's shaky statistics countless times. If this man worked in the private sector, he'd be under investigation by the SEC and Cuomo for his fuzzy stats. And he claims to be a CPA! Finally, we have Suozzi's claims to be environmentalist of year. How do you reconcile his imaginary initiatives with the fact that county parks, the places where most people in this county experience the environment, all have browned grass or are at the cusp of closure?

His cuts to the police have led to a heroin epidemic in Long Island. Yet, here he is holding a 'summit' that accomplishes no good at all while getting his name in the NY TIMES. What's needed today is a strong police effort aimed at weeding out heroin dealers, trying to look good and impress the good government types. There's a big picture of Suozzi cleaning up the trash. Rather than clean up the trash that the towns and sanitation districts do a fine job of collecting -- and I say that intending to compare their stellar service with subpar service offered by Suozzi's County -- maybe he should clean up the trash he's collected at 1 West, as revealed in open court yesterday.

By the way, who created this website? I sure hope it wasn't done on county time.

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