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4th district: GOP veteran faces novice Democrat

Owen Johnson, who is seeking a 19th term in the State Senate, sees himself as a beacon for Republicans and suburbanites who find themselves left out of an Albany decision-making process otherwise dominated by New York City Democrats.

"An unbalanced place where one party controls the whole state is probably not good," he said. "People need an alternative. ... Everybody knows that New York...

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