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Thomas Suozzi won't challenge successor Mangano

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, right, speaks with

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, right, speaks with former County Executive Thomas Suozzi in Mineola. (Dec. 2, 2009)

Dan Janison

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Scratch former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi from the list of possible Democratic candidates to oppose Edward Mangano, his Republican successor, in next year's election.

"I'm not running," Suozzi said Friday.

Despite indications all along from his friends that the two-term executive likes his life in the private sector, activists on both sides of the county partisan divide have...

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