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PASS THE BUTTER: For the first time since announcing their candidacies for lieutenant governor, state Sens. Marian Bergeson (A3) and John Seymour were seated at the same table at a political function--President Bush’s L.A. fund-raiser Tuesday. . . . Presidential Chief of Staff John Sununu was between them. . . . While conceding seating was “a bit awkward,” Seymour quipped: “I’m sure by the time Sununu left, his left ear and right ear had been filled with more than he wanted to know about the lieutenant governor’s race.”
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