Being a Democrat in rural America, even in a deep blue state like New York, isn’t always easy. The nation’s rural outposts have never been completely hospitable to the type of progressive, liberal agendas that thrive in urban areas — for a whole host of reasons, reasons whose roots stretch back to pre-Revolutionary days. Instead […]
Tom Suozzi
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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 […]
