By Eliot Brown 10/08/08 7:50pm

Former Bloomberg Deputy Hires Former Spitzer Deputy

Paul Francis, the former state director of operations under Governors Spitzer and Paterson, has been picked up by Bloomberg LP to take a top job in the company’s Financial Products group, a Bloomberg spokeswoman confirmed. Put another way: Dan Doctoroff, formerly Michael Bloomberg’s influential deputy mayor and now Bloomberg LP’s president, hired last week a Read More

By Eliot Brown 6/24/08 3:51pm

Paul Francis, Top Aide to Paterson and Spitzer, Resigns

Paul Francis, the director of State Operations for Governors Paterson and Spitzer, has resigned, the governor’s office announced today. In the Paterson administration, Mr. Francis provided oversight to many key development projects in the state, trying to sort out the mess at Moynihan Station, among others.

Former colleagues generally held him in high regard Read More

By Staff 4/04/07 4:21pm

Westchester on the 'Altar of Expediency'

Some of Eliot Spitzer’s budget decisions are not going down so well in Westchester.

Here’s part of a dramatically worded letter sent today by Democratic Assembly members from Westchester to Paul Francis, the governor’s budget director, about the new school funding formula:

“We racked our brains to find a single example of the use of Read More

By Staff 1/31/07 11:20am

Small-Government Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer is giving his budget presentation to reporters, with budget director Paul Francis and the budget staff on hand.

One line that caught my attention so far is how Spitzer described funding that some health care institutions received so far. He described is as a “pipeline, almost an unending pipeline of state largess.”

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By Staff 12/11/06 6:00pm

Events for Tuesday, December 12, 2006

At 8 a.m., the Campaign for Fiscal Equity has a breakfast forum at the Yale Club.

Starting at 8:20 a.m., former governors Bill Weld and Jim Florio join incoming state budget director Paul Francis at a panel discussion on “Governing Change: Policy, Politics and the Spitzer Administration” at The New School.

At 9 a.m., the Read More

By Staff 11/09/06 12:36pm

Thinking About Moving to Albany?

Here’s Eliot Spitzer’s newly announced transition team:

Rich Baum, executive director
Paul Francis, policy director
Francine James, appointment director

Chairs

Richard Parsons
Peter Goldmark, Jr
Elizabeth Moore
Lloyd Constantine
Hunter Rawlings
Rosanna Rosado

They’re accepting resumes here.

– Azi Paybarah

By Staff 3/08/06 2:21pm

Suozzi’s Audience

More interesting than anything Tom Suozzi said at a Crain’s breakfast this morning, I’m told, were a couple of the faces in the audience.

First, there was Mario Cuomo, who doesn’t often show up at this sort of thing.

Also at the table of former Cuomo aide and lobbyist Tonio Burgos was Read More