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9th district: Professor aims to unseat Skelos

Ninth District challenger Roy Simon said he has a surprise in store for Republican incumbent state Sen. Dean Skelos of Rockville Centre, the newly minted majority leader.

"I am going to beat him," Simon, a Democrat, said of the 24-year Senate veteran seeking re-election next month.

Simon, the Howard Lichtenstein distinguished professor of legal ethics at the Hofstra University School...

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