‘Agents’ on mission
Blaz elex consultants tapped for L.I. exec race
A MOTORCYCLIST died Sunday after slamming into the back of a box truck — which then left the crash scene — on a Staten Island ALBANY — The Democrat running for Nassau County executive has hired the same team behind Mayor de Blasio’s campaign operation.
Laura Curran hired consulting firm BerlinRosen and ad company AKPD Message + Media for her county executive service road, police said. bid against Republican Jack Martins. Matthew Randazzo, 28, hit the truck on West Service
Curran (photo inset) paid BerlinRosen Road at Victory Blvd., near nearly $160,000 since January the West Shore Expressway
and $14,000 on TV ads with AKPD in Travis, just after 11 a.m.
Message + Media, which in 2013 created Randazzo was leaving the the well-known ad featuring de Blasio’s highway when he sped past son, Dante, records show. several vehicles stopped in Curran, a county legislator, easily traffic, cops said. The truck won her Sept. 12 primary against Nassau was stopped at a light when County Controller George Maragos, he slammed into its rear, who switched parties from Republican cops said. to Democrat to run for county executive.
Medics took him to Stat- en Island University Hospi- She’ll face off in the November general tal, but he couldn’t be saved. election against Martins, a former
state senator.
BerlinRosen co-founder and principal Jonathan Rosen and AKPD partner John Del Cecato were among those dubbed “agents of the city” by de Blasio when rejecting media requests for emails between City Hall and the two.
Curran spokesman Philip Shulman said that “in absolutely no way, shape or form” is de Blasio helping with the campaign despite the hiring of some of his best-known consultants.
Martins campaign spokeswoman Mollie Fullington accused Curran, who has promised to clean up Nassau County corruption, of bringing “Bill de Blasio’s corrupt ‘agents of the city’ into Nassau County,’ ” said Martins spokeswoman Mollie Fullington.
“She’s a hypocrite and has no credibility when it comes to fighting corruption or protecting Nassau property taxpayers,” Fullington said.
She also said the use of de Blasio’s campaign consultants is further proof of Curran’s ties to the New York City Democrats and their “radical” agenda.
Shulman shot back by seeking to tie Martins to disgraced former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the Nassau County Republican who was convicted on federal corruption charges.
“This is a desperate attempt by a failing campaign that wants to turn the attention away from their own candidate’s record,” Shulman said.
“Nothing Jack Martins says can distract from the fact he was Dean Skelos’ most loyal foot soldier in Albany’s corruption caucus,” Shulman said.
“Martins did everything he could to keep Skelos in power after he was arrested, including blocking a motion that would have removed him and signing a letter supporting him.”