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LaValle: Suffolk GOP's Job, or Moses?

May 7, 2011 7:33 PM By RICK BRAND rick.brand@newsday.com

Chairman of the Republican committee, John Jay LaValle,

Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein, 2009 | Chairman of the Republican committee, John Jay LaValle, on election night in Holtsville. (Nov. 3, 2009)

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To some, Suffolk Republican chairman John Jay Lavalle is the political version of Job -- the biblical victim of myriad misfortunes. Others who are less charitable say LaValle's troubles are self-inflicted.

LaValle was the first state GOP leader to back former Rep. Rick Lazio, of Brightwaters, for governor and one of the first to dump him when his campaign faltered. He then backed County Executive...

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