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Candidate screening turns into shouting match in Melville

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Call it the melee in Melville.

Republican State Senate candidate Lee Zeldin's screening for possible endorsement Friday at the Long Island Federation of Labor headquarters turned angry when his military record came up.

Zeldin, a lawyer who served in Iraq during the summer of 2006, got upset when Nassau-Suffolk Building Trades Council president Jimmy Castellane, one of about 20 union...

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