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Feb 27, 2013 10:29 AMFormer Southampton Town Councilman Dennis Suskind is considering a bid to return to a seat on the Town Board in this November’s election.
Mr. Suskind, who served on the Town Board from 2001 to 2005, said this week that he is contemplating a bid for the office he left nearly a decade ago and plans to ask both the town Republican and Democratic parties to screen him as a candidate.
“I’m still thinking it over, but I was going to inform the parties this week … that I would like to screen,” Mr. Suskind said on Tuesday.
When he first served on the Town Board, Mr. Suskind was nominated and won election on the Democratic ticket. He did not seek reelection in 2005. His seat was won by current Councilman Chris Nuzzi, a Republican, who is now in the last year of his second term and is prevented from running again by term limits.
Mr. Suskind said he would be equally open to running as either a Republican or a Democrat and, should he choose to enter the race, would welcome an endorsement by any party that wished to support him.
Mr. Suskind, 70, is a former investment banker and one-time partner at Goldman Sachs. Since leaving office, he’s been involved in a couple of local real estate and development deals, including the Water Mill Station office complex currently under construction.
MICHAEL WRIGHT
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If the people running the Democratic Party unilaterally again select Throne Holst again to run under the Democratic Party, without the votes of the Committee members and other members of the Party, I urge the Democratic Party voters to boycott this election, or at least vote for a Third Party candidate for Supervisor, who will actually support the peoples' issues.
ATH has dined from the Democratic pantry for so long without giving back, while at the same time carousing with the Cionservative, ...more Republican, and of course that party without any principles, the Independence Party.
In the last two elections, the Democratic Party has fielded a majority non Democratic ticket you wonder where their values are at, a perfect recipe for eternal loser politics in Southampton.
That's a big problem in Town politics, too many people, like Suskind, not caring which party (and principles) they run under just as long as they win. And we're the ultimate losers.
Question: Who and What does this individual stand for??? I am
disappointed regarding how our politics are decided. We need people who
are interested in keeping the East End rural.
The last person I know who worked like that on the town board was Jim Drew. I may not have agreed with his politics but you could never question his integrity.
If he were running for a Village office (where the two parties are prohibited), 2/3 of the above comments wouldn't even exist.
Right now on the town board you have 3 republicans, a supervisor who claims she is independent and is not, and one democrat who sought higher office and ...more voted accordingly.
I want to know what a politician stands for on issues and their overall philosophy of governing. Party affiliation, and which party you woo for endorsements, means everything. If you are willing to please any party to get a nod, it means that you are more interested in getting elected than taking a stand.
First, the Southampton Democrats always take a vote of all comittee members to nominate candidates for public office. To say otherwise is flat wrong.
Second, for the view that party affiliation is not that critical in local politics, check out my comments under the link above, "East Hampton Democrats Hold First Screenings." They're too long to reproduce here, but the gist is that we all have to be practical and work together, and there's no particular Democratic ...more or Republican way to fix the streets, or to do most of the things involved in running a town.
TB, there is no difference between who wins, Republicans or Democrats? All Southampton Democrats know otherwise no matter how you try to justify the Democratic Exec Comm's lack of principles.
Because bottom line,it's all about jobs, isn't it? You mean you haven't noticed? How many decades have you been here?
No question about it. At least the GOP allows primaries where Republican voters have a choice when people disagree with the Exec Committee.
Kabot and Grabowski ran in Primaries against the Executive Committee's choices. When was the last time The Dem Exec Committee allowed something like that to happen.
I would love Fleming, a true Democrat to run a primary against Throne Holst. We all know who's going to win.
A primary, of course, is another stage, an actual election in which all the locally registered members of a party can vote. Under the law, if more than one candidate gets petition signatures from a stated percentage ...more of the party's registered voters, a primary election is held. It's expensive, draining resources from the general election campaign, and doesn't happen too often.
Is that so? When was the last time the Committee membership had a real vote (secret to prevent ostracism and the typical marginalization by the Executive Commiittee.
ONLY A SECRET BALLOT TRULY REPRESENTS THE WILL OF THE COMMITTEE..
TB, enough history revisionism to justify Politburo practices by the Executive Committee. It is unbecoming of you to outright and boldly lie.
"A fellow detective accused Lt. Armstrong of perjury after Ms. Jennemann was convicted in May 2004, and a subsequent Suffolk County Police Bureau of Internal Affairs report found that he likely lied when he said, under oath, that he was at the scene of the Bridgehampton accident, in which farm worker Henry Anthony Yarrell was killed. Colleagues, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he was never ...more observed at the scene."
"The result could have repercussions in the Jennemann case, and the DA’s office says it also will be reviewing other criminal cases in which Lt. Armstrong was involved to see if a closer review is warranted." Armstrong Case to DA - 12/8/04
"His hearing was set to vet the 13 separate charges of “conduct unbecoming a police officer,” and “conduct which brings discredit upon the police department,” according to a copy of the charges provided to The Press. The charges all addressed in some way four separate instances: Lt. Armstrong’s filing of a false written report of Ms. Jennemann’s accident both before and after the trial, the accusation of two counts of perjury for his testimony in the trial, and his alleged falsestatement given to Internal Affairs officers during their investigation."
Wait for it.....
"“Even if he was found guilty of the charge, I still don’t think it would be fair,” Mr. Suskind said this week. “This is a guy who worked for more than 28 years, has an exemplary record. He may have done something stupid and self-serving, and there’s not even any agreement of guilt. But he wasn’t beating people up, or putting lives in general in danger, or taking bribes.” Both Mr. Suskind and Town Councilwoman Linda Kabot said this week that the lieutenant’s work in a vehicle and traffic capacity had been extremely well done, and Ms. Kabot proposed this week to keep him on as a part- time civilian vehicle and traffic consultant."
Really?! Another Southampton cop with "credibility issues" lies on the stand and jeopardizes a hit & run case where someone dies and "it wasn't like he was beating people up" cricket, cricket.
Help us, someone!
Republican Party Candidate - Kabot - Member Republican Party
Independence Party Candidate - Throne-Holst - Member Independence Party
Gee willikers what a treat it would be to see the Party's run their own members for Town Supervisor. No cross endorsements. No Wilson-Pakula's. Let the best woman win!
On the contrary, many have criticized this Board for an excess of acrimonious debate, or what some call bickering. ...more Whatever you call it, Ms. Throne-Holst and Ms. Fleming have fought their corner with gusto and tenacity. Check out the tapes and see if that's not so.
The problem is one of simple arithmetic. Three makes a majority of a five-person Board, every time. Republicans Nuzzi and Scalera regularly vote with Conservative Malone to carry the day, and all the minority can do is protest. If sometimes they don't protest a lot, just to keep the noise level down, I won't fault them for that.
OU, I don't disagree with what you say, and I believe that ATH and Bridget Fleming have introduced ...more some hopeless measures strictly on principle.
As my father used to say, though, "a little of that goes a long way," meaning in this case that one could argue the practice is a waste of the people's time and money. We elected these folks to get things done, not to wave flags, and they're aware of that, so they don't do as much flag-waving as you (or I) might like.
This inflexible adherence to principle (see Tea Party et al.) is what's paralyzing our government at the federal level right now. I'm not accusing you of that, but someone could take what you've written, run with it, and get to that place. As I posted above, we all have to be practical and work together, and there's no particular Democratic or Republican way to fix the streets, or to do most of the things involved in running a town.