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Rudy's version of what happened in the Hamptons

When a heckler repeatedly threatened to punch Rudy Giuliani Saturday, the fiery former New York City mayor didn't back down from a Bridgehampton street fight.

"Go ahead and do it already," he told the heckler, his spokeswoman confirmed Sunday.

She said the onetime GOP presidential contender exchanged words with John W. McCluskey, 69, for "a few minutes" on Main Street in a confrontation...

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