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Old Bethpage Village Restoration

In February 2009, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi proposed closing all county parks including Old Bethpage in order to reduce the county deficit.

Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center

On February 14, 2006, Nassau County Executive, Thomas Suozzi announced that Hempstead Transit Center would be renamed in honor of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.

Thomas Suozzi

The campaign was funded largely by big business, in the form of Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone, former NYSE CEO Richard Grasso, David Mack of the MTA, and many individuals on Wall Street who had been investigated and prosecuted by Eliot Spitzer.

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Democratic Party bosses long favored Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, but Suozzi prevailed in the primary and was elected to Nassau County Executive, the first Democrat in that office since Eugene Nickerson left it in 1971, and just the second Democrat in the post-World War II era.

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His coattails were credited with helping the Democrats keep the Nassau County Legislature (by one vote) as well as helping Democrat Kathleen Rice dislodge long-term Repuiblican Denis Dillon as Nassau County's District Attorney by about 8,000 votes.

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He was first elected to the post of county executive in 2001, the first Democratic county executive since Eugene Nickerson left office in 1971.

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"Fix Albany" led to the defeat of at least one incumbent Democratic state Assemblyman in the party primary, and provided a platform for David Valesky to unseat veteran Republican incumbent State Senator Nancy Larraine Hoffmann (a former Democrat) for a Syracuse-area seat in the State Senate.

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