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Surprise non-endorsements for Nassau DA Donnelly

While endorsements from law enforcement unions loom large in district attorney races, non-endorsements can be almost as visible, since prosecutors and police must interact so closely on a daily basis.

In a rare move, five weeks before the election, powerful unions representing Nassau County police officers and detectives are taking a pass on the county DA’s race, despite their vocal support four years ago for Republican incumbent Anne Donnelly.

Even more unusually, CSEA Local 830 on Monday took a big step further and backed Democrat Nicole Aloise against Donnelly. It’s the first time in more than a decade that the public sector union, the county’s largest, endorsed a DA candidate. A portion of its 8,000 county employees work

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