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in which he characterized Moses as a "'stubborn old man" and the proposed expressway as "a mad visionary's dream." Paradoxically, DeSalvio introduced bills in 1962 and 1963 to purchase Ellis Island from the federal government and use it as the site of a new state university campus and as a hospital
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Dechter. While he consistently ran as a Democrat, he received the endorsement of the State's Conservative Party at least once (in 1974). DeSalvio resigned a
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mocked him in 1963 for proposing what it described as a "weird suggestion," that state-operated horse tracks allow betting not only on races at that track, but also races at other tracks shown live on closed-circuit television. This "weird suggestion" became an important part of New York's
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in 1946, but that designation could not actually protect the property until it was owned by the federal government. Both houses of the state legislature passed the DeSalvio-Quinn Bill and in April 1949 Governor
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for over 38 continuous years, longer than all but one other member in the history of that body. From 1941 to 1979, he represented districts that included the southern end of
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and research center for narcotics addicts. Neither bill became law.
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