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Brown: In Suffolk, legislators aim for cooperation

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone talks about the

Photo credit: Ed Betz | Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone talks about the county's budget problems during a news conference in Hauppauge. (April 2, 2012)

There were no Republican lawmakers standing at Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone's side Monday when he announced the first steps in a plan to mitigate Suffolk's cumulative $500-plus million deficit.

But unlike in Nassau County that doesn't necessarily signal that the minority and majority political parties are pulling in different directions. In this case, Minority Leader John M. Kennedy...

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