Post by backdoorit on Oct 16, 2013 15:40:45 GMT -5
Originally published: October 16, 2013 3:09 PM
Updated: October 16, 2013 3:15 PM
By ROBERT BRODSKY robert.brodsky@newsday.com
Former President Bill Clinton will headline a fundraiser next week in Great Neck for Democratic Nassau County executive candidate Thomas Suozzi, who is challenging Republican County Executive Edward Mangano in November.
Nassau Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs confirmed that Clinton, the 42nd president, will endorse Suozzi at an Oct. 23 fundraiser at Leonard's of Great Neck.
"I am so grateful and honored that President Clinton is coming to Nassau to help demonstrate that I have a vision for the future of Nassau and that we must stop the current administration's reckless borrowing, tea party extremism and the Mangano tax," Suozzi said. Suozzi claims that Mangano's mismanagement of the assessment system has caused school taxes to increase.
Mangano spokesman Brian said, "Even Bill Clinton cannot overshadow the fact that Tom Suozzi raised property taxes by 23 percent and gave himself a $65,000 pay raise."
Jacobs and Suozzi have been longtime Clinton supporters and fundraisers. In 2008, Clinton headlined a golf outing in Glen Cove for Suozzi, who lost his re-election a year later to Mangano.
"President Clinton has been a friend of Tom's for a long time," Jacobs said. "They have a close personal relationship and President Clinton is enthusiastic to come out and help Tom."
Suozzi met privately with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Oct. 4 before her appearance at a Long Island Association luncheon. Jacobs said the former first lady is not expected to attend the Great Neck event.
Updated: October 16, 2013 3:15 PM
By ROBERT BRODSKY robert.brodsky@newsday.com
Former President Bill Clinton will headline a fundraiser next week in Great Neck for Democratic Nassau County executive candidate Thomas Suozzi, who is challenging Republican County Executive Edward Mangano in November.
Nassau Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs confirmed that Clinton, the 42nd president, will endorse Suozzi at an Oct. 23 fundraiser at Leonard's of Great Neck.
"I am so grateful and honored that President Clinton is coming to Nassau to help demonstrate that I have a vision for the future of Nassau and that we must stop the current administration's reckless borrowing, tea party extremism and the Mangano tax," Suozzi said. Suozzi claims that Mangano's mismanagement of the assessment system has caused school taxes to increase.
Mangano spokesman Brian said, "Even Bill Clinton cannot overshadow the fact that Tom Suozzi raised property taxes by 23 percent and gave himself a $65,000 pay raise."
Jacobs and Suozzi have been longtime Clinton supporters and fundraisers. In 2008, Clinton headlined a golf outing in Glen Cove for Suozzi, who lost his re-election a year later to Mangano.
"President Clinton has been a friend of Tom's for a long time," Jacobs said. "They have a close personal relationship and President Clinton is enthusiastic to come out and help Tom."
Suozzi met privately with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Oct. 4 before her appearance at a Long Island Association luncheon. Jacobs said the former first lady is not expected to attend the Great Neck event.
