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  • Mr. Astorino Goes to Westchester (NY)

    01/13/2012 6:55:01 PM PST · by neverdem · 15 replies
    National Review Online ^ | January 11, 2012 | Patrick Brennan
    What might cause the New York Times editorial board to find, in New York’s suburban Westchester County, an example of “a struggle for racial integration [that] is neither bygone nor exclusively Southern”? Why might “county leaders [be] stonewalling federal authorities over a longstanding housing desegregation case”?More or less, a Republican executive in a deep blue district. Over the past two years, county executive Rob Astorino has garnered widespread attention and praise for defending his county against racially tinged federal overreach in a mundane affordable-housing case, while also reducing the onerous costs of county government.In recent decades, Westchester’s wealth has...