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Politics of storm response: Dems throw snowballs at Romaine
File this under “piling on.”
Amid the controversy over the ill-timed vacation of Brookhaven’s GOP supervisor, Edward Romaine, some county Democrats have been quietly distributing an old newspaper account of another town supervisor’s response to a blizzard.
It was late February, 2003, and Babylon Town Supervisor Steve Bellone – now Suffolk County executive – was vacationing in Florida...