All the insider suspense has ended over whether Anthony D'Esposito would run for his former House of Representatives seat against incumbent Rep. Laura Gillen.

The final answer is an anticlimactic "No."

The county GOP, headed by chairman Joe Cairo, went at the last minute with Town of Hempstead Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll, about whom there had been little or no open speculation.

Oddly the D'Esposito question lasted more than a year, right up to Tuesday's do-or-die deadline for the Nassau County Republican Committee to nominate a 4th Congressional District candidate.

All along D'Esposito's opportunity to become the inspector general for the U.S. Labor Department looked like an offer he couldn't, shouldn't and wouldn't refuse. Nominated last April, he was sworn into the job in January.

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