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Potential Gillibrand challenger eyes Rangel instead

Published: May 12, 2010 8:45 PM
By DAN JANISON  dan.janison@newsday.com

A primary challenge to appointed U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) appears to have faded as Jonathan Tasini, a left-leaning Democrat, said Wednesday that he will skip the Senate run and instead pursue a Manhattan congressional seat.

Gov. David A. Paterson's selection last year of Gillibrand, previously an upstate congresswoman, to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton pending this year's special...

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