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BREAKING GROUND STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL GUIDE TO INVESTIGATING DIOCESES STREET FAIRS ON 3RD TRACK PAGES 35-62
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REMEMBERING HEROES
Dems, GOP share election board 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. Continued on Page 95
PHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR
Members of the Floral Park Fire Department remember lives lost during the Sept. 11 attacks 17 years ago during the village memorial service on Tuesday. See story on page 3.
Inn doesn’t deserve our biz: Dems Party pulls fundraiser from NHP catering hall for hosting NRA event BY R E B ECC A K L A R The Nassau County Democrats have relocated an upcoming fundraiser from the Inn at New Hyde Park after the catering hall refused to cancel a scheduled National Rifle Associ-
ation 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 business who would support putting our children at risk like this does not deserve our business,”!Jacobs said in a statement. Jacobs is the latest in a long line of local Democrats standing with gun safety
advocates in protesting the catering hall’s decision to hold the event. A Nassau County Republican party spokesman said the GOP had no comment on the Democrats’ pulling their fundraiser from the inn. Jacobs said that as soon as the party found out the Inn at New Hyde Park was hosting an event for the NRA “it became very apparent to us that we could not hold our own event
there.” Jacobs said he asked the inn to cancel the NRA event, and inn officials said lawyers had advised them not to break the contract. The Oct. 22 party fundraiser will be held at a different venue, Jacobs said. “The Democratic Party is not just any association. We are a political party that represents certain values, certain principles and certain policies,” Jacobs said Continued on Page 11
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