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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Republicans in New York's Legislature are pushing for a special election to fill the expected vacancy in the U.S. Senate instead of allowing Democratic Gov. David Paterson to make a unilateral appointment through a secretive process.
The efforts, however, are by traditionally powerless minority conferences of the Assembly and Senate and face a nearly impossible timetable to even get the bills to floor debates before Paterson chooses Hillary Rodham Clinton's successor from a field of Democrats including Caroline Kennedy and Andrew Cuomo.See the full content of this document
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New York Gop Wants Senate Special Election
Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, a Schenectady Republican, warned that ...
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