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Dan Janison

Melville. N.Y. Tuesday January 26, 2010. Daniel Janison, Dan Janison

Dan Janison has been a reporter at Newsday for 10

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Back in 2000, cartoonist G.B. Trudeau cast his irrepressibly cynical "Uncle Duke" character as a presidential candidate running on the slogan "Whatever It Takes."

This somehow sprang to mind in appraising the never-ending efforts of diverse observers, shills, and activists to pinpoint Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's location on the national left-to-right political spectrum -- and Cuomo's propensity...

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