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Slur interrupts debate over Nassau's Living Wage

Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa) and Nassau Legis.

Photo credit: Schmitt, Howard Schnapp; Abrahams, Newsday / Karen Wiles Stabile

Nassau Legis. Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead) was steamed Monday over the way Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt  (R-Massapequa) was running the legislative meeting, complaining  he was not allowing full discussion of a proposal to nix a $1 increase in the county's Living Wage law.

Then Abrahams muttered a slur .

" I apologize to you for that comment.," Abrahams...

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