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Experts: NY Senate incumbents may face angry voters

Sen. Hiram Monserrate, D-Queens, left, and Sen. Pedro

Photo credit: AP File Photo | Sen. Hiram Monserrate, D-Queens, left, and Sen. Pedro Espada, Jr., D-Bronx, talk in the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Albany.

For more than 20 years, the State Legislature has routinely adopted budgets late, been called "dysfunctional" by reformers and served as the backdrop for a raft of scandals.

Yet, in all that time, only a handful of incumbents have been voted out of office.

That may change with the 2010 elections, experts predict. They said voters were disgusted by the June 8 leadership coup in the State...

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