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Rouse can't touch $300G campaign war chest

John Rouse, Democrat, Town of Brookhaven Highway Superintendent.

Photo credit: Patrick Oehler | John Rouse, Democrat, Town of Brookhaven Highway Superintendent.

Brookhaven's Democratic highway superintendent, John Rouse, may be running on the Republican line for Suffolk County Court this fall, but he cannot use his campaign war chest of nearly $300,000 in the judicial campaign or turn the money over to his newfound GOP backers.

The use of that money is restricted by a series of rulings from the Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics dating to 1992.

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