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Nassau Democrats suggest honoring Johnson as well as Schmitt
The Nassau legislature voted unanimously this past Monday to name its meeting chamber for the late Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa), but only after Republicans rejected Democrats' proposed amendment to make it the Peter J. Schmitt-Barbara Johnson Memorial Legislative Chamber.
Johnson, a Democrat from Port Washington, was an original member of the first legislature, which...
