Before he was deputy Suffolk County executive, Jim Morgo was a teacher.
Before he served on the County Legislature, too – or was Suffolk’s commissioner of economic development or the Town of Brookhaven’s economic-development coordinator, or a regional board-of-directors mainstay or a revered private-sector government-relations consultant. Before all that, Jim taught English at a Massachusetts prep school, at a Long Island high school and at colleges across the Island.
But for a young man who grew up campaigning for the Kennedys, the lure of politics and government proved strong – much to the benefit of all Long Islanders.
In today’s episode, Jim joins Spark host Gregory Zeller for a masterclass in housing, energy, government relations, economic development and A-list name-dropping – with four decades’ worth of eye-opening Long Island history lessons mixed in.
