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Suffolk executive: 'A tale of two Steves'

December 3, 2011 9:56 PM By RICK BRAND rick.brand@newsday.com

Steve Bellone speaks to Chamber of Commerce members

Photo credit: John Dunn | Steve Bellone speaks to Chamber of Commerce members from Suffolk County. (Dec. 3, 2011)

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State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) Sen. Dean Skelos Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone offers testimony to Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone

Only hours before the name of Steve Bellone's new top aide surfaced last week, the Suffolk County executive-elect and county Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer lunched in Melville with the state's most powerful Republican -- Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of Rockville Centre.

Schaffer said the timing was coincidental. Still, Skelos was one of the first people Bellone told about his choice...

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