Guest columnist Jay Jacobs: Don’t buy what Bruce Blakeman is selling

If you listen to Bruce Blakeman, you’d think that all is well in Nassau County and that he has kept taxes down and made us safer – in contrast to us “horrible” Democrats who have supposedly done just the opposite.

Blakeman touts his latest no-tax-increase budget, adding “almost 300 new police officers I have hired over the past three years.”  And he brags that U.S. News & World Report “recently named” Nassau “the safest county in America – as if that just happened.