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Henican: Fiscal responsibility can get a little dicey

Quick ReadThis whole fiscal responsibility thing can get a little dicey. Sometimes people actually hold you to what you say. Just ask Peter Schmitt.

Nassau Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt talks about the

Photo credit: Newsday/Howard Schnapp | Nassau Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt talks about the proposed raises being rescinded. (January 29, 2010)

Ellis Henican

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This whole fiscal responsibility thing can get a little dicey. Sometimes people actually hold you to what you say.

Just ask Peter Schmitt.

The new presiding officer of the Nassau Legislature, who swept in with County Executive Edward Mangano in November’s anti-incumbent wave, is a tightfisted, lean-government, no-waste conservative. Or so he’d been telling everyone.

Then on Monday,...

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