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Montano-Schaffer rift has Suffolk Dems uneasy

A file photo of Ricardo Montano.

Photo credit: David Pokress, 2011 | A file photo of Ricardo Montano.

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Lately, Suffolk Legis. Ricardo Montano and Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer are not seeing eye to eye, and it's making a lot of other Democrats uncomfortable.

Schaffer, who is also Babylon Town supervisor, has said he wants to see the Senate's most senior Republican, Owen Johnson, re-elected to another term.

But Montano (D-Brentwood), who does not even live in Johnson's...

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