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A three-man bid for LIPA board elections

July 21, 2012 9:42 PM By RICK BRAND rick.brand@newsday.com

Greg Fischer running for 1st district New York

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Greg Fischer running for 1st district New York State Senate in Shirley, New York. (July 21, 2008)

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Electoral gadfly Greg Fischer relishes making mischief at the ballot box.

And this year he is taking on his biggest target yet -- the Long Island Power Authority.

What Fischer, a Calverton resident, is trying to do in almost Rube-Goldberg-fashion is to turn the LIPA board of trustees -- now appointed by top Albany officials -- into a board elected by Long Island voters.

That was...

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