For days, Democrats in the New York State Assembly had been considering whether to expel a Republican assemblyman because of evidence suggesting he lived in Manhattan, not in the South Brooklyn district he was recently elected to represent.The efforts to remove Assemblyman Lester Chang were seen as extraordinary a legislator hasn't been ousted from the Assembly in over a century and politically contentious, fueling accusations from Republicans that Democrats were pushing a partisan agenda to overturn his election.
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