Original sentence: Guardino Jr.Kate Murray has long been considered a protege for Mondello and an established member of the Republican "old guard" in Nassau County
Edited sentence: "old guard" in Nassau County.Guardino Jr resigned.Kate Murray has long been considered a protege for Mondello and an establlished member of the Republican.Kate Murray remains a popular local political leader and it is rumored that she is condsidering running for Nassau County Exective in 2009.The Town of Hempstead also has developed a reputation for paying large salaries and benefits to part-time workers, a practice Nassau and Suffolk Counties, as well as other towns and municipalities have eskewed.With Murray gone, however, the Republican's risk losing their last vestige of power in Nassau County and, indeed, the entire state of New York