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Nassau exec race kicks off with blame game

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)

Joye Brown

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The race for Nassau County executive kicked off last week with District Attorney Kathleen Rice's announcement that she would not run for the seat.

Not that she wanted it in the first place, mind you.

Rice, for more than a year, has been telling local Democratic Party leaders that she had no interest in the position. On Thursday, a week to the day before a fundraiser at the Cradle of...

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