Posted on 11/28/2004 8:36:34 PM PST by Mike Fieschko
When did they move out to Nassau? Weren't they mostly in Suffolk?
Lawnguyland has gone from one of the most reliable Republican strongholds in the country to being another liberal craphole. A little more than a decade ago, all but one congressmen from there were Republicans, but now only one -- and that's Peter King.
Carolyn McCarthy is now the congresscritter for what was once one of the staunchest, reflexively GOP districts in the area. Garden City, Franklin Square, etc. -- I remember when they had GOP offices in storefronts, but never recall seeing a Dem office. I shudder to think of what it must be like there now.
Garden City, Franklin Square and New Hyde Park all went for Bush.
I grew up just five blocks from Franklin Avenue. Used to ride my bike cross Franklin, onto Hempstead Avenue into Downtown Malverne. There weren't any illegal aliens at the time. I guess I first started noticing them in Hempstead back in the late 80s/early 90s.
My hometown of Malverne went for Bush as well. Remember, however, that Great Neck, the Five Towns, Hempstead, West Hempstead, and Valley Stream, among others, vote Dem and have more people. Also remember that even in the towns on Lawn Guyland that Bush won, the margin was quite narrow.
Interesting. How does the vote break down there for Carolyn McCarthy?
Anyway, when I rode through there (mostly Garden City and Mineola) in the month before the election, I was hard-pressed to see any GOP signs, but I saw plenty of 'rat ones.
As someone who used to take Hempstead Turnpike to Shopper's Village and Sam Ash, I know the friggin' difference.
Actually the new shopping center is way better than that the A&S. BTW, there were NO Howard Mills signs and very few Marilyn O'Grady signs.
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