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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Today's Quinnipiac <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11372.xml">poll</a> shows Alan Hevesi's lead over Chris Callaghan is down 6 percentage points from the poll taken two weeks ago.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton said the public is <a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/41793">growing concerned</a> about websites like MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who hosted a fund-raiser for her earlier this year.</p>
<p>The New York Sun publishes John Spencer's <a href="http://www.nysun.com/letter.php">15-page letter</a> to Eliot Spitzer in which Spencer said as Westchester DA, Jeanine Pirro's "tactics were outrageous and the real criminals were being protected by her."</p>
<p>During the debate, Cuomo <a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/41744?page_no=1">demanded</a> Pirro respond to the letter and said she was currently under investigation by the state attorney general.</p>
<p>The Truth Squad <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/nyregion/18sidebar.html">says</a> Cuomo "was painting the situation with too broad a brush."</p>
<p>In his own debate tomorrow, John Spencer has "<a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/41780">little to lose</a>" by aggressively going after Hillary Clinton, The New York Sun reports.</p>
<p>The charges against Brian McLaughlin range from "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/nyregion/18labor.html?_r=1&amp;ref=nyregion&amp;oref=slogin">Dickensian</a> (stealing $95,000 from Little League baseball teams to pay his rent) to the brazen (creating two no-show jobs on his legislative payroll and keeping part of one salary)," according to the Times. Some Democrats <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nyreax184937670oct18,0,4996977.story?coll=ny-nynews-print">defended</a> McLaughlin as a stand-up guy.</p>
<p>George Pataki has <a href="http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=526585&amp;category=STATE&amp;newsdate=10/18/2006">donated $130,000</a> to candidates outside New York, according to a recent financial filing.</p>
<p>John Sweeney took <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=526600&amp;category=REGION&amp;newsdate=10/18/2006">a trip</a> overseas with a lobbyist hired by Jack Abramoff and may not have reported it to Congress as required. [<em>added</em>]</p>
<p>John Faso has finally become the Republican Party standard-bearer, but at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/nyregion/18faso.html?ref=nyregion">an unfortunate time</a>.</p>
<p>Rudy Giuliani said Democrats were <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10182006/news/regionalnews/rudy_slams_dems_as_soft_regionalnews_maggie_haberman.htm">soft</a> on national security issues.</p>
<p>And two more people connected to Giuliani's former NYPD Commissioner, Bernie Kerik, were <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10182006/news/regionalnews/2_busted_in_kerik_door_deal_regionalnews_stephanie_gaskell.htm">busted</a>.</p>
<p><em>-- Azi Paybarah</em></p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today's Quinnipiac <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11372.xml">poll</a> shows Alan Hevesi's lead over Chris Callaghan is down 6 percentage points from the poll taken two weeks ago.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton said the public is <a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/41793">growing concerned</a> about websites like MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who hosted a fund-raiser for her earlier this year.</p>
<p>The New York Sun publishes John Spencer's <a href="http://www.nysun.com/letter.php">15-page letter</a> to Eliot Spitzer in which Spencer said as Westchester DA, Jeanine Pirro's "tactics were outrageous and the real criminals were being protected by her."</p>
<p>During the debate, Cuomo <a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/41744?page_no=1">demanded</a> Pirro respond to the letter and said she was currently under investigation by the state attorney general.</p>
<p>The Truth Squad <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/nyregion/18sidebar.html">says</a> Cuomo "was painting the situation with too broad a brush."</p>
<p>In his own debate tomorrow, John Spencer has "<a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/41780">little to lose</a>" by aggressively going after Hillary Clinton, The New York Sun reports.</p>
<p>The charges against Brian McLaughlin range from "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/nyregion/18labor.html?_r=1&amp;ref=nyregion&amp;oref=slogin">Dickensian</a> (stealing $95,000 from Little League baseball teams to pay his rent) to the brazen (creating two no-show jobs on his legislative payroll and keeping part of one salary)," according to the Times. Some Democrats <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nyreax184937670oct18,0,4996977.story?coll=ny-nynews-print">defended</a> McLaughlin as a stand-up guy.</p>
<p>George Pataki has <a href="http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=526585&amp;category=STATE&amp;newsdate=10/18/2006">donated $130,000</a> to candidates outside New York, according to a recent financial filing.</p>
<p>John Sweeney took <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=526600&amp;category=REGION&amp;newsdate=10/18/2006">a trip</a> overseas with a lobbyist hired by Jack Abramoff and may not have reported it to Congress as required. [<em>added</em>]</p>
<p>John Faso has finally become the Republican Party standard-bearer, but at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/nyregion/18faso.html?ref=nyregion">an unfortunate time</a>.</p>
<p>Rudy Giuliani said Democrats were <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10182006/news/regionalnews/rudy_slams_dems_as_soft_regionalnews_maggie_haberman.htm">soft</a> on national security issues.</p>
<p>And two more people connected to Giuliani's former NYPD Commissioner, Bernie Kerik, were <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10182006/news/regionalnews/2_busted_in_kerik_door_deal_regionalnews_stephanie_gaskell.htm">busted</a>.</p>
<p><em>-- Azi Paybarah</em></p>
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