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Harvey Weisenberg has served in the State Assembly since 1989, and during that time he has worked to pass nearly 300 bills, sponsored legislation that has created tougher drunken-driving laws such as Leandra’s Law, helped people with special needs and supported legislation aimed at reducing property taxes.
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10/27/10
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The stakes in this election are too important to accept at face value the slick and often alarmist advertising that candidates put forward as Election Day nears.
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10/7/10
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Our good friend Mayor Ed Koch has spent the past few months traveling the state, encouraging New Yorkers to “Throw the bums out!” Well, on Primary Day we got the message and threw out Pedro Espada, the worst offender in Albany when it comes to greed and arrogance.
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Al D'Amato
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9/24/10
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My father served as a union president — a teachers union president — in Suffolk County nearly four decades ago, in the days when educators like him were given little respect, and even lower wages.
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Scott Brinton
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6/3/10
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Last week, 92 percent of Long Island school budgets won public approval. Aware of the public’s anger over rising taxes, most districts held their growth down to between 2 and 4 percent. Thankfully, the voters didn’t punish the children.
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Jerry Kremer
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5/28/10
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A year ago, Long Island legislators dismissed Albany as the home of a government not of the people, but of “three men in a room.” And that wasn’t the first time that criticism was leveled; it’s been a perennial complaint. But now we’re lucky if we can get that many in a room, and even luckier if we know which three they are.
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4/8/10
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Gov. David Paterson made no friends in Albany with his State of the State address last week. In it he outlined a series of ethics and campaign reforms under what he called the Reform Albany Act — aimed primarily at what many say is a dysfunctional Legislature.
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1/14/10
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