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State's 2 Great Powers React to Incoming Fire

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 5/26/17

There are times when Governor Cuomo leads us to believe that the most powerful man in state government is really Simcha Felder.

Mr. Felder is the distinctly low-key State Senator from Brooklyn who five years ago was elected as a Democrat and immediately announced that he would caucus with the Republican majority because it was the best way to serve the interests of his constituents, a heavily Orthodox Jewish population in Borough Park and patches of Midwood and Flatbush.

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