41. Edward Ambrosino

Ambrosino is a councilman in the Town of Hempstead, special advisor to County Executive Ed Mangano, and serves as counsel to Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, PC. He may also very well be the future face of the Republican Party on LI. Nary a bad word is said about Ambrosino, who always makes you feel as though you are the only person in the room. Intelligent, level-headed and affable, Ambrosino smoothes out the edges of a rough and hierarchal party steeped in tradition and big on formality. He is the glue between the Mangano administration and the Nassau GOP as he is fluent in both political and government parlance.