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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Sep 9, 2014, 11:00 AM Sep 2014

State GOP chairman defends GPS tracking of Long Island Democrat

KENNETH LOVETT

ALBANY — State GOP Chairman Ed Cox defended Monday the Assembly Republicans’ use of a GPS tracking device to see if a Long Island assemblyman lived in the district he represents.

An outraged Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) told the Daily News the electronic surveillance of Assemblyman Edward Hennessey (D-Suffolk) had the ring of Watergate.

But Cox, the son-in-law of the late Richard Nixon, ripped Silver’s comment as "absolutely silly."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/state-gop-chairman-defends-gps-tracking-democrat-article-1.1932841

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