The birthday party is a fund-raiser for Andrew Cuomo's 2010 campaign--a campaign that has yet to settle on the exact office Mr. Cuomo might be seeking--and it comes just a few weeks before the next campaign finance filing deadline, on January 15. A strong filing from Mr. Cuomo, the thinking goes, could hasten calls for Governor David Paterson to cede the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to the ascendant attorney general.

Tickets for the Bon Jovi bash range from $1,000 dollars to $50,000 dollars, depending on how close you'd like to be to Mr. Bon Jovi and Mr. Cuomo.