tony casale. tony: that's right, the sergeants do run the army. whenever someone begins a new job or joints a new organization, there tends to be the tendency to look around and size of the people that you meet, try to identify who the real leaders of the group are, people you might want to emulate some day. people from whom you can learn something. after you are there for a few years, you start looking at new people coming in. you size them up. who are the potential leaders? who are the people we can trust with the mantle of responsibility going forward? when i joined the assembly in 1979, one of the people i met was a tall, good-looking, articulate guy from suffolk county. he was very friendly, very bright, very articulate, and he took me under his wing and i learned a lot about him -- i learned a lot from him about policy and politics. a few years later, another very tall, good-looking, articulate guy from suffolk county appeared on the scene, and it did not take me very long to figure out that this guy was going to become a true leader and an