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Friday, September 4, 2015

vol. 3, no. 36

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singas runs against scotto, eyes Murray Says courtroom experience, role as acting DA trumps both BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Eight months into her first campaign for public office, Acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said she is only just now starting to get comfortable with the process. “The whole thing is unusual,” the Democratic district attorney candidate said in a sit-down interview with Blank Slate Media Thursday. “It’s a whole different ball game, running for office.” Singas, of Manhasset, is

the former chief assistant to her predecessor, U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City), and assumed the district attorney role in January after her former boss was sworn

elecTion 2015 into Congress and Gov. Andrew Cuomo declined to appoint a successor. Though her sights are set on an Election Day showdown in November with Republi-

can Kate Murray, the Town of Hempstead supervisor, Singas will first have to defeat Port Washington resident Michael A. Scotto in a Sept. 10 primary for the Democratic nomination. “This is a job that I want, that I feel I’ve worked my entire career towards, and I intend to be doing it past November,” Singas said. According to 11-day pre-primary campaign finance records filed Wednesday, Singas has a war chest of $807,027.35, with ScotContinued on Page 42

Sea Cliff actor brings Theodore Roosevelt to life Foote impersonates former president at Sagamore Hill (C)2015 MARTHA GORFEIN PHOTOCONCEPTS/WWW.MGPHOTOCONCEPTS.COM

A child gets his face painted Saturday during the East Hills Kids in the Park Committee’s end-of-summer carnival at the village’s park. see more photos on page 36.

BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Theodore Roosevelt drove a Toyota Corolla. He arrived at the historic Oyster Bay train station Saturday afternoon dressed in early 20th century casual wear, there to surprise a tour group not far from his estate-turned-muse-

um at Sagamore Hill. “Did you come to greet me at the train station?” he called out, and in unison, they reply, “Yes, mister president.” He, of course, is not the 26th president of the United States, but a historical character actor named James Foote. Foote, 66, does not live at Sagamore Hill, but in Sea Cliff,

where he has resided for most of his life. It is Foote who drives the Toyota Corolla, who changes from his baseball cap to a straw hat, who’s been paid to dress like the original Rough Rider for so many years he made a career off it. “You get the feeling he’s Continued on Page 43

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