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John Rennhack, a 33-year-old homeowner in North Massapequa was born in Queens and grew up in Middle Village. John is the son of Ernest, a New York Native of Italian and German heritage and Helga a German-born naturalized citizen. Growing up, John valued the time overseas with his grandmother and family. Saying of his time there "Family is very important to me. I have a large family minutes away in New York, as well as a large family in Germany. Given the opportunity to have spent time in Europe beginning at an early age gave me a strong sense of family."
John learned his sense of civic duty and activism from his mother who served on local community boards and civic associations in Middle Village. In the early nineties John worked against a proposed curfew for minors in NYC. The curfew plan would have turned law-abiding youths into criminals just for being out late. John believed that the curfew would have been an usurpation of parental rights. A product of public schools, John attended Thomas A. Edison High School and graduated in 1997. John graduated from St. John's University in 1991 with a Bachelors Degree in Communications. While at St. John's, John was a student leader becoming Editorial Page Editor and then General Manager of the school newspaper The Torch, Editor in Chief of Spectator Humor Magazine, and a DJ/On-Air Personality for WSJU Radio. During and after university, John worked for Lufthansa German Airlines to help pay for his education. John spent time traveling extensively getting to know and learn about other people and cultures. In 1995 John joined CBS Television and currently works as a Broadcast Satellite Distribution Manager. As a manager for CBS, John is responsible for the network signal reaching 217 stations around the country for the CBS Network and over 180 stations for the UPN Network. John works with stations on troubleshooting and solving equipment and network signal problems. In 1998, John traveled to Japan with CBS for five weeks for coverage of the Nagano Olympics. In 1997 John married Jean Lindlau, a school teacher from Garden City Park. John and Jean lived in Garden City Park until they bought their home in North Massapequa. The couple is expecting twins due in December. John wants to serve the Massapequas and Nassau County in the Legislature because he sees that without responsible leadership, his children and your children will inherit problems created in the last decade. On running for office, John says "I am not a politician. I am a citizen who wants to make a difference. My goal is not personal advancement but public service." John had not considered running for local office until recently when he says "I saw that we have legislators who are more concerned with getting elected than solving the problems in the county. Everything turns into partisan politics in order to score points in upcoming elections." Fiscal responsibility is the cornerstone of John's agenda. "We cannot go forward," the candidate says "unless we clean up the past and refuse to go back to the old ways. The time of bad fiscal policy, government waste and fraud is over. We have entered a new century with a County Executive and Legislative Majority that has made great progress in fixing the problems they inherited and we must not allow Nassau to return to the bloated, expensive and inefficient entity that it once was." John will take his experience working in the private sector and apply it in the Legislature. As a Legislator, John wants to make county government accountable and accessible. "I believe that I am there to serve the people and not my own fortunes or those that are connected to me. I intend to study and question every piece of legislation especially on fiscal matters so that when I vote I know that it is the best for the county and not for special interests or to enrich connected individuals. We cannot lose millions of dollars through bad deals and contracts if we demand all the facts." "Nassau has a bright future," John insists. "We are on the road to fiscal recovery but the end is not near. We need strong and bold leadership to put aside politics and work for the county. We need to continue to reinvent and consolidate government agencies to better meet the needs of residents and cut waste. As a Legislator I will make sure that it will always be people before politics and fiscal responsibility for Nassau's future." |
