Three Democrat-led funding requests have advanced in the Republican-majority Nassau County Legislature, signaling the ending of a monthslong partisan divide in which dozens of similar allocations have not come up for a vote, officials said.
Under Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, his GOP colleagues in the legislature have had 20 requests to fund various initiatives in their districts approved. But of 27 funding requests that Democratic legislators made for their districts, only one has made its way to the floor for a vote in September — $1.75 million for the Village of Hempstead to treat their hazardous drinking water. And even that was hard-fought, Nassau County Legislature Alternate Deputy Minority Leader Siela Bynoe (D-Westbury) said at the time.
