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'Identity politics' increasingly shaping NY policy

August 1, 2009 By The Associated Press MICHAEL GORMLEY (Associated Press Writer)

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — It was an odd gathering of lawmakers in the hidebound conventions of New York's Senate chamber that early June day. An ex-cop facing an assault indictment, a conservative minister, and an entrepreneur investigated over government grants to his health care clinics, flanked by some of the most senior members of the Assembly.

All were Democrats. All were Latinos. And all were...

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