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Nassau Democrats are questioning whether County Executive Edward Mangano and Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Dale misused the county phone network intended to alert residents to emergencies, such as hurricanes and shootings.
Both Mangano and Dale made automated calls to residents in the past few weeks promoting a plan to realign Nassau's precincts.
"This is an important public information alert," Dale said in a call last Friday. "I have put forth a plan that increases public safety and respects your hard-earned tax dollars."
Legis. David Denenberg (D- Merrick ) termed the call a "blatant" misuse of the county phone system. He said the parents of his legislative aide received both Mangano's and Dale's calls at their Merrick home and the caller ID displayed the same number used by Mangano during Tropical Storm Irene to alert residents about emergency preparations.
"The emergency network is a taxpayer-funded network to provide information in case of emergency circumstances, like a hurricane, an armed burglary in the neighborhood, not to provide people with one-sided partisan information about something that is not an emergency," Denenberg said.
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