Word: pattons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only a place to discuss politics, but clearly a place to meet neighbors," Patton says...
...January 1982, Patton, who had recently become a lawyer with a local law office, was tapped by the boss of that firm to run for the assembly that year...
...Patton was not always a politician. For many years she was a housewife. But in 1974 she decided to go back to school to earn a college degree, and eventually a law degree...
When in New York City, Patton had done some political work but she said she experienced "culture shock" when she began to involve herself in local Nassau politics...
Once in Albany, Patton, a member of the Democratic-controlled Assembly, had to work with the Republican-controlled Senate in order to get bills passed. But her Nassau Senate colleagues at first refused to work with her, she says...