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singas swept towns in dA race landslide N. Hempstead led with 62-38% margin for Manhasset resident By N o a H M a N s k a R While District Attorney-elect Madeline Singas carried all three Nassau County towns in last Tuesday’s election, Board of Elections data show North Hempstead was her biggest Democratic stronghold. While turnout was only about 20 percent, the lowest since 2011, Singas won the town by an 24-percent margin, getting 62 percent of the vote to Republican Kate Murray’s 38 percent. In Republican stronghold Oyster Bay, Singas beat Murray 58 percent to 42 percent. She also won Murray’s hometown of Hempstead, taking 55 percent of the vote to Murray’s 45 percent. Within the town, Singas found her biggest pockets of support in parts of Great Neck, Garden City Park, Roslyn, Plandome Manor, Port Washington, Old Westbury and New Cassel. Singas won by a margin of more than 50 percent in 50 elec-
tion districts in those areas, including all of the villages of Thomaston, Great Neck Plaza, Great Neck Gardens, Plandome Manor, Roslyn Harbor and Roslyn Estates. Singas, a resident of Manhasset, had margins of victory between 35 and 45 percent in the areas surrounding these deeply Democratic parts, including most The Harlem Wizards basketball team came to Manhasset High School on Oct. 30 to take of the Great Neck and Cow’s Neck part in the “Slam Dunk” fundraiser. Funds for the event went to benefit the Manhasset peninsulas and a broad strip of the town stretching from Lake Success Great Neck Economic Opportunity Commission. North Hempstead Town Councilwoman to New Cassel. Anna Kaplan was on hand to take part in the festivities. Her biggest margin — 86.5 percent — came in a district in New Cassel, where she won 307 of the 333 votes to Murray’s 19. These numbers are typical for North Hempstead, Nassau Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs said. The town is generally an easy win for Democratic candidates, particularly given its large popula$240,000 bond or $120,000 announced on Friday. By H a R R i s oN tion of highly educated voters, he Marshall Hubsher, 65, of cash. MaRdeR said. “The defendant allegedly Sands Point, was charged with “They were the ones that were A psychiatrist who had fourth-degree conspiracy and sold prescriptions for highly Continued on Page 61 been stripped of his license to three counts of unauthorized addictive and dangerous drugs, practice medicine was indicted practice, according to prosecu- without the authority to do so and with no regard for public for selling prescriptions for Ad- tors. Hubsher faces a maximum safety or any patient’s health,” derall and Xanax to patients for cash out of his office in the of one and one-third to four Acting District Attorney Singas Roslyn section of Flower Hill, years in prison if convicted on said. “Prescription drug abuse Continued on Page 50 the District Attorney’s Office the top charge. Bail was set at
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