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Republican Turncoat Encounters Hostility at Stunt News Conference Outside GOP HQ

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Republicans to Democrats: You’re sophomoric.

Democrats to Republicans: You’re thugs.



It was great theater as the Democrats stuck their thumb in the Republicans’ eye by holding a press conference outside GOP headquarters in Westbury to announce that a former leader of the Young Republicans of Nassau, Nina Petraro Bastardi, was running for the Nassau County Legislature as a Democrat.



GOP chairman Joseph Mondello opted for a show of force instead of gimmickry, and about 100 GOP stalwarts turned out to give Petraro and her Democratic supporters a loud, sometimes profane greeting.


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