ELMONT,NY (December 8,2011) - Every election in Elmont the Republican Party has employed the use of coalition politics and been successful in ingraining coalition voting by local residents. Elmont has been predominantly Democratic voters but always seems to end up with Republican Assemblymen, Senators and other direct election officials.
The local Assemblyman, Senator and their local liaison Scott Cushing have always had a force in the local community. Cushing is constantly in the community, offering high school students internships in the Town of Hempstead offices and putting together community events such as the 7 on 7 Football Tournament or the 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament. Cushing is sure to stay in contact with students via social networking and makes contact during election years to strategically place signs on the property of locals. Cushing also sends letters to the homes of locals with the written names of children in the household as a tactic for securing votes for the officials he works for. Within these letters the Republican Party does a lot of name dropping in order to create a coalition that Elmont voters elect without question just because Cushing does so much for the community.
The local 5th Precinct Police Station in Elmont announced it would be closing down, a direct result of the past election where Elmont voters did not vote for the elite candidate, they voted based on a highly publicized derogatory comment by a campaign worker. Racism still exists; it is sad but true. Carrie Solages (Democrat), the new Nassau County Legislature, was only able to seize his first term because of a derogatory remark made on behalf of his opposition, John Ciotti. The view of a campaign worker was not the view of Ciotti, Ciotti has been a veteran legislature and has done a pretty good job in the previous years he has been in office.
Ciotti has never passed any laws that reflected racist values or favoritism toward any ethnic group in Elmont, Ciotti has kept Elmont clean and introduced legislature to crack down on illegal leasing of homes in the area as well as the expulsion of illegal students. Elmont has always had an issue with Queens residents claiming false addresses in order to gain entry into our public school system. These students more often cause issues within the school and are financially straining because their parents do not pay the high school taxes Elmont residents do.
Ciotti combatted this issue by placing strict guidelines for students to enroll into public educational facilities where designated school officials may come to visit the home of students if suspicion of residency arises. Solages has had no experience in suburbia, although his experience in the Bronx may have been positive, Long Island is nowhere close to the Bronx in terms of legislature. Solages is not the elite; Solages just understood how to work his angle to Elmont, a Haitian-American, and a victim of modern day racism.
So far Solages's victory has done nothing but make Elmont take steps backward and cause political tensions in the capital. Ciotti understood the issues in Elmont and Solages will have his work cut out trying to work around all of the re-elected Republicans.
The local Assemblyman, Senator and their local liaison Scott Cushing have always had a force in the local community. Cushing is constantly in the community, offering high school students internships in the Town of Hempstead offices and putting together community events such as the 7 on 7 Football Tournament or the 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament. Cushing is sure to stay in contact with students via social networking and makes contact during election years to strategically place signs on the property of locals. Cushing also sends letters to the homes of locals with the written names of children in the household as a tactic for securing votes for the officials he works for. Within these letters the Republican Party does a lot of name dropping in order to create a coalition that Elmont voters elect without question just because Cushing does so much for the community.
The local 5th Precinct Police Station in Elmont announced it would be closing down, a direct result of the past election where Elmont voters did not vote for the elite candidate, they voted based on a highly publicized derogatory comment by a campaign worker. Racism still exists; it is sad but true. Carrie Solages (Democrat), the new Nassau County Legislature, was only able to seize his first term because of a derogatory remark made on behalf of his opposition, John Ciotti. The view of a campaign worker was not the view of Ciotti, Ciotti has been a veteran legislature and has done a pretty good job in the previous years he has been in office.
Ciotti has never passed any laws that reflected racist values or favoritism toward any ethnic group in Elmont, Ciotti has kept Elmont clean and introduced legislature to crack down on illegal leasing of homes in the area as well as the expulsion of illegal students. Elmont has always had an issue with Queens residents claiming false addresses in order to gain entry into our public school system. These students more often cause issues within the school and are financially straining because their parents do not pay the high school taxes Elmont residents do.
Ciotti combatted this issue by placing strict guidelines for students to enroll into public educational facilities where designated school officials may come to visit the home of students if suspicion of residency arises. Solages has had no experience in suburbia, although his experience in the Bronx may have been positive, Long Island is nowhere close to the Bronx in terms of legislature. Solages is not the elite; Solages just understood how to work his angle to Elmont, a Haitian-American, and a victim of modern day racism.
So far Solages's victory has done nothing but make Elmont take steps backward and cause political tensions in the capital. Ciotti understood the issues in Elmont and Solages will have his work cut out trying to work around all of the re-elected Republicans.
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