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Tragic & comic themes at LI GOP event

Former Nassau presiding officer Bruce Blakeman, center, at

Photo credit: Photo by James Carbone

 

There were back-to-back tastes of poignancy and comedy in the room at an American Legion Hall off Sunrise Highway today as Valley Stream native son Bruce Blakeman declared his candidacy for US Senate.

The gathering included an appeal for donations for Haiti earthquake victims from Bishop Fernando Rodriguez, president of the Latin/African American Chaplains Association Social Services...

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