Thomas R. Suozzi
Hall of Fame
A few weeks ago Hillary Clinton was out of the presidential race and Tom Suozzi was a footnote after he was trounced in the primary race against Eliot Spitzer for governor. What a difference a few weeks make. Hillary Clinton wins Texas and Ohio and revives her campaign and Eliot Spitzer meets his political demise. As the playing field opens up in New York, all of a sudden it’s good to be Tom Suozzi again. Political winds shift almost daily, but no more dramatically than we have seen so far in 2008. County Executive Suozzi has managed to stay in the news and on top of his game using the momentum of his Fix Albany campaign to become the chairman of the New York State commission on Property Tax Relief. He has also received national acclaim for creating the Green Levittown project in conjunction with Citizens Campaign for the Environment and several of Long Island’s most well-known companies. Suozzi also just oversaw the move to the newly renovated Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative building, originally the old courthouse, which now houses the office of the exec and the county Legislature, an accomplishment that was one of his early campaign promises.
Inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2008