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Friday, October 22, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 43
Port WashingtonTimes WOMEN OF DISTINCTION OF NASSAU COUNTY PAGES S1-S56
Weinstock files lawsuit against D’Arrigo
LEGISLATURE OKS BUDGET
CURRAN, BLAKEMAN GO HEAD TO HEAD
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KINDNESS IS KING
Says candidate exposed him to COVID-19 BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Great Neck resident and former congressional candidate Michael Weinstock has filed a lawsuit against his former opponent, Melanie D’Arrigo, who he claims purposefully exposed him to COVID-19 by forcing him to make frequent trips to the post office in the spring of 2020. Weinstock said D’Arrigo, a progressive candidate from Port Washington who has already announced her candidacy in the 2022 election to represent the 3rd Congressional District, deliberately forced him to visit the post office more than 30 times to deal with “a barrage of frivolous lawsuits” during the early stages of the pandemic. Weinstock’s lawsuit aims to hold D’Arrigo accountable for forcing him to leave his home at a time when health and safety measures were not yet handed down by the government. Weinstock, who is
representing himself in the lawsuit, said he never contracted the virus, but said D’Arrigo’s messages to the public to stay inside during the spring of 2020 were contradicted by the challenges she filed against him. “I wanted to stay at home, too, but this aggressive wellness coach was forcing me to leave my house every afternoon,” Weinstock said. Weinstock and D’Arrigo are both Democrats. The initial complaint was filed by Weinstock in state Supreme Court in Nassau County on Aug. 30, according to court documents. D’Arrigo, along with former congressional challenger Josh Sauberman and Peter Johnson, the husband of D’Arrigo’s campaign manager, Tracy Bacher, were listed as the defendants on the legal complaint. The legal challenges against Weinstock last year were filed by Johnson, according to D’Arrigo, and argued that WeinContinued on Page 45
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PORT WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT
Guggenheim fifth-graders created a mural to emphasize the need for kindness in their legacy project.
Jacobs apologizes for KKK reference BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
he compared former Klu Klux Klan leader David Duke to Buffalo’s mayoral nominee, India State and Nassau County Walton. During an interview with Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs apologized on Monday Spectrum News, Jacobs was for a political analogy where asked about the precedent
set if a Democratic candidate wins a primary race without the endorsement of the state’s party leaders, such as Walton, a Black woman. Jacobs used the hypothetiContinued on Page 35
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