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Both LI counties to get new GOP election commissioners

Sunday September 5, 2010 8:09 PM By Celeste Hadrick and Rick Brand

These two dispatches come from Celeste Hadrick in Nassau, and from Rick Brand in Suffolk, perhaps showing the Long Island counties to be parallel universes. Hadrick: Nassau Republican Elections Commissioner John DeGrace, 59, the Valley Stream GOP leader, is retiring Sept. 30 from his $128,000 per year public job.A former Valley Stream mayor, DeGrace started in Nassau in 1976 as a county grants...

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