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- LI WINS: LEVY CAMPAIGN DOLLARS GO TO FORMER FOES
- Written February 17, 2012 by Ted Hesson, LI Politics
Strange but true:
Over the past eight years, former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy consistently battled local immigrant rights groups.
He supported policies that marginalized immigrant communities, like an attempt to authorize Suffolk police to act as immigration officials. After the 2008 hate-crime killing of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero, he callously referred to Lucero’s death as a “one-day story.”
Now Levy is inadvertently donating $17,500 to the Workplace Project, an immigrant rights organization that he would have once derided as a den of “anarchists” and “communists.”
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