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Despite Democrat's win, GOP rules Senate

January 22, 2013 5:25 PM By DAN JANISON dan.janison@newsday.com

Cecilia Tkaczyk arrives in Albany for a television

Photo credit: John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union | Cecilia Tkaczyk arrives in Albany for a television interview in Albany. (Jan. 18, 2013)

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State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) Sen. Dean Skelos Dean Skelos Skelos, 62, of Rockville Center, is LI's 9 Republican state senators

The final blow in a bruising election cycle for the State Senate's once-mighty Republicans came Friday, with a belated end to the last 2012 vote count. Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk prevailed by less than 20 votes to upset Republican George Amedore -- in an upstate district drawn by GOP strategists during last year's reapportionment.

Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos' conference, including all...

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