Facing cancer, Lindsay dives into record 8th term as legislative leader
Photo credit: Newsday / Michael E. Ach | Newly installed Suffolk County Legislature presiding officer William J.Lindsay is confronted by Deputy County Executive Paul Sabatino just after the legislature session ended. (Jan. 3, 2006)
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On Jan. 2, Bill Lindsay was unanimously re-elected to a record eighth term as presiding officer of the Suffolk County Legislature, as his wife and children looked on. Colleagues showered the Holbrook Democrat with such high praise that Lindsay joked his head would get so big, "I won't get out of the room."
Later that afternoon, Lindsay drove to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan...