Although his own attempt to engineer an extended mayoral stint failed, Rudy Giuliani is cautiously supportive of Michael Bloomberg’s plan, telling the Daily News he’d be willing to campaign for the mayor if he runs again.
This makes sense for a couple of reasons. First, if he did decide to run Read More
The AP has an official statement from Democratic Senate Leader Malcolm Smith explaining why he pulled his entire conference off a bill raising salaries for state lawmakers–something Governor Spitzer opposed. Smith said the conference changed position because Senate Republicans didn't agree to campaign finance reform.
As a result, the members of Read More
Norman Adler thinks that in light of the race in Nassau — in which Eliot Spitzer engineered the vacancy of a Republican seat and then propelled a Democrat to victory — the state Senate Democrats are basically the governor’s to do with as he pleases.
“Of course they sided with him,” said Adler, Read More
Random mini-highlights from a New School forum today about the incoming Spitzer administration:
NYPIRG’s Albany man Blair Horner said the new governor “has to have a big reform victory that people understand” quickly, because the longer he’s there, and the more Spitzer works with lawmakers, the harder it’ll be to leverage public support for major Read More
