Steve Minarik seemed uncharacteristically subdued when he approached the podium in HofstraUniversity’s arena. It was early Thursday afternoon, the final day of the state Republican Party’s convention in Hempstead, Long Island, and balloting for the gubernatorial endorsement had ended moments before. In the tone of a man announcing his own death sentence, he told the […]
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Long Island sounds
It’s5 o’clock on a Wednesday, so the crowd at Rochester’s Hyatt Regency is smaller than it could be, but Tom Suozzi, a natural-born politician if ever there was one, is working it. “Hi, I’m Tom Suozzi,” he says, over and over with an almost calculated efficiency, pausing just long enough to make eye contact, to […]
