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Kaminsky declares win in State Senate’s 9th District race By JaMEs BERNstEiN and DaRwiN YaNEs
revenues. “The largest impact on revenue was from the loss of beach Long Beach officials, in a fur- services,” Reznik said. ther effort to stabilize the city’s She added that a committee shaky finances, stated in a of city department heads had memo last week that “revenues been created to monitor spendare significantly lower than ing on goods and services, and anticipated” and that “all non- that it would meet on a weekly essential purchases funded basis. The plan to reduce costs, through the general she said, focused fund of the city will only on the purbe suspended immechase of goods and diately.” services, not on city According to the personnel. memo, which was Long Beach has issued by City been on shaky Comptroller Inna financial grounds Reznik, the decision for years now, the came after a meetresult, city officials ing she had with say, of sloppy planCity Manager ning, no planning iNNa REzNiK Donna Gayden. and overspending Reznik said in an City comptroller by previous admininterview late last istrations. week that revenues Gayden, a municfrom beach passes had declined ipal financial expert who took by over $1.3 million this sum- over earlier this year, has moved mer, as day passes for non-resi- to put the city on a path to finandents were restricted in order cial stability, although some for the city to comply with the critics have questioned the state coronavirus regulation city’s recent borrowing from the limiting beach crowds to 50 per- bond markets. In April, the City cent of capacity. Council voted to borrow $4.2 The city was also forced to million from Capital One Bank hire extra beach patrol officers to keep the city afloat through to monitor compliance, spending that also cut into anticipated Continued on page 3
By JaMEs BERNstEiN jbernstein@liherad.com
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statE sEN. tODD Kaminsky declared victory in the 9th S.D. race last night. He celebrated with his wife, Ellen. Kaminsky’s decision to declare victory was “a little premature.” “First, I want to say thank you for everyone that supported me,” Johnson said. “It’s not over yet. Johnson noted that there are still thousands of ballots that need to be counted, and said she would not concede until the electoral process ran its course. Kaminsky, chairman of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, won a special
election in 2016, following the expulsion of Dean Skelos from the Senate as the result of an ethics scandal, for which he was sentenced to prison in 2016. Kaminsky, a former prosecutor in the offices of the Queens district attorney and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, was elected to the State Assembly in 2014, replacing Harvey Weisenberg, who had retired after a 25-year career in Continued on page 3
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State Sen. Todd Kaminsky held a solid lead in the 9th Senate District race Tuesday night over his Republican challenger, Victoria Johnson, who has never held elective office, and campaigned on a single issue: repealing the state’s bail-reform law. Nassau County Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs declared that Kaminsky had won the race Tuesday night. But just before Jacobs made his announcement, Johnson said she remained “optimistic” about the outcome. According to preliminary results from the Nassau County Board of Elections, Kaminsky, a 42-year-old Democrat from Long Beach, had about 68,900 votes, compared with about 60,300 for Johnson, 60, who has worked for Republican state legislators on Long Island. “Thank you to the voters of the South Shore for overwhelmingly re-electing me to the State Senate,” Kaminsky said in a statement on Wednesday. “I look forward to getting to work on behalf of all voters to achieve more prosperous communities, honest government and a cleaner environment. Let’s do this together.” Johnson said Wednesday after noon that she thought
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Winner
opponent
4th c.d.
Kathleen Rice (d) – 52%
douglas tuman (R) – 47%
9th S.d.
todd Kaminsky (d) – 53%
Victoria Johnson (R) – 47%
20th A.d.
Melissa Miller (R) – 64%
gregory Marks (d) – 36%
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he largest impact on revenue was from the loss of beach services.