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First Latino member of Babylon Town Board

Posted July 23, 2008 by Patrick Young, Esq.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Bob Keeler has a great article in today’s Newsday about Tony Martinez, a union activist, who was just sworn in as the first Latino member of Babylon’s town board. Martinez is from a Salvadoran refugee family. Just the sort of folks the Minutemen would like to drive out.
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