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'Grocer' Catsimatidis eyes top City Hall job

January 17, 2013 9:50 PM By DAN JANISON dan.janison@newsday.com

John Catsimatidis attends the wedding of Andrea Catsimatidis

Photo credit: Wire Image | John Catsimatidis attends the wedding of Andrea Catsimatidis and Christopher Nixon Cox at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral Of The Holy Trinity in Manhattan. (June 4, 2011)

Dan Janison

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Sounding more and more like a New York City mayoral candidate, supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis, 64, has this to say of Joe Lhota, seen as the strongest among his putative rivals for the Republican nomination:

"I think he has to realize that this is a Democratic town."

That comes from a man who switched from Democrat to Republican five years ago, looking to succeed the term-limited...

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