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Aide to Israel denies Emanuel threatened congressman

WASHINGTON - An aide to Rep. Steve Israel denied Friday that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel threatened adverse political consequences if the Huntington Democrat went forward with a 2010 primary challenge to New York's appointed junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand. Two days before pulling the plug a week ago on the Senate campaign he was set to launch, Israel went to the White House to discuss...

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