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Calcaterra Appointed Deputy County Exec
Riverhead News-Review
December 6, 2011

Suffolk’s Regina Calcaterra, recently tapped by County Executive-elect Steve Ballone, Babylon’s Democratic supervisor, to be his chief deputy county executive.

54 Victories in 2011
November 10, 2011

54 Eleanor's Legacy endorsed candidates won in 2011.

106 Candidates Endorsed in 2011
November 8, 2011

Eleanor's Legacy provided $36,950 in Campaign Grants to 106 candidates running for local office in 2011.

2011 Endorsed Candidates
November 5, 2011

The complete list of 106 candidates endorsed by Eleanor's Legacy in 2011.

Statement from Harriet Cornell, Chair of Eleanor's Legacy
August 21, 2011

Though we say good-bye to Nora, we will remember her grace and passion and we will honor her legacy each day as we work to build the next generation of pro-choice Democratic women activists, voters, and leaders

Nora Bredes, Who Fought Nuclear Plant, Dies
New York Times
August 20, 2011

Nora Bredes, the primary organizer of the grass-roots campaign that kept the Shoreham nuclear power plant on the North Shore of Long Island from opening in the 1980s — a campaign that prompted the plant to become known, in the words of the local power authority, as “America’s first stillborn reactor” — died on Thursday in Rochester. She was 60 and lived in Pittsford, N.Y.

The cause was cancer, her son Nathan said.

Democrat Wins G.O.P. Seat; Rebuke Seen to Medicare Plan
The New York Times
May 24, 2011

Democrats scored an upset in one of New York’s most conservative Congressional districts on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the national Republican Party in a race that largely turned on the party’s plan to overhaul Medicare.

As Special House Race Intensifies, Washington Sends Backup
The New York Times
May 11, 2011

Depew, N.Y. - This village of strip malls, car dealerships and working-class neighborhoods is an unlikely stage for a battle between the two major parties in Washington. But the national political stakes became clear when the House speaker, John A. Boehner, arrived on Monday for a visit that drew a few hundred people, including residents, local dignitaries and television crews.

The Death of Roe v. Wade
Slate
April 19, 2011

Supporters and opponents of abortion agree on nothing. One side says this is a conversation about fertilized eggs; the other says it's about fetuses. One side says the debate is about personal autonomy; the other says it's about murder. One side sees exceptions to abortion restrictions for reasons of maternal life or health as necessary to protect life; the other sees them as cunning "loopholes."

Democratic National Committee head from LI
Newsday
April 14, 2011

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was named chairmwoman of the Democratic National Committee last week, will now play a key role in national politics as the party's chief strategist and fundraiser.

"It was amazing to grow up a little girl on Long Island, and to have the president have confidence in me," Wasserman Schultz said, recalling that her political career begain inauspiciously in Melville.

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