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A (mostly) small-town feel to 4th CD event in Lynbrook

At a campaign kickoff in Lynbrook on Monday evening, for just a few minutes, you could imagine Norman Rockwell sitting on a stool and painting one of his small-town America scenes.

Five young boys sat on the curb balancing plastic plates and munching free cheeseburgers as Republican Francis X. Becker announced into a cranky microphone that he was running for Congress against Democratic incumbent...

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