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Obama aide Schiliro honed his skills on Long Island
The first taste of politics for Phil Schiliro, President-elect Barack Obama's new chief lobbyist on Capitol Hill, began with a fight over a polluted man-made lake in North Baldwin.
Back in 1974, as a 17-year-old Baldwin High School senior, Schiliro convinced his environmental studies class to investigate a small pond carved out of a sandy lot behind his house and to try to stop a local company...
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