Nicholas Confessore, son of Quogue Library president Lynda Confessore, has emerged as a key New York Times reporter focusing on the Presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.

Confessore shares a byline today with Maggie Haberman in a page one article on Clinton’s “personally courting donors for a ‘super PAC,’” noting that she has pledged to make “campaign finance reform a critical issue.” Republicans are also using super PACs, it is noted, the Koch brothers pledging $1 billion for the 2016 campaign.

confessoreSuper PACs emerged in the wake of the 2010 Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling which allowed corporate contributions to political campaigns.

Confessore himself authored an April 25 piece headlined “Clinton Charities Review Tax Returns Amid Scrutiny of Foreign Grants.” An article co-authored with Jonathan Martin May 2 described Clinton’s “pursuit of the liberal base” but said that pursuit has been met with “desires for assurances that a progressive agenda will be followed to completion.”

Quogue, Southampton, and Westhampton Beach are now in the fifth year of a court battle with the East End Eruv Assn. which wants to erect boundaries called eruvim that convert public space into the private domain of Orthodox Jews. The towns and Jewish People Opposed to the Eruv have spent more than $1 million on outside legal counsel so far in battling eruvim.

Sugarman Spoke to Quogue Board

Robert Sugarman of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, lead attorney for the EEEA, appeared before the Quogue board in an hour-long hearing in March 2012, saying that refusal to allow an eruv in Quogue would violate the First Amendment rights of Orthodox Jews.

The Quogue library has been offered several hundred pages on the eruv dispute by the O’Dwyer Co. but has not yet decided whether to keep them on file. Library director Christine Clifton said a policy for this has to be created.

Last NYT article on the dispute was Feb. 4, 2013, by Sharon Otterman.