In this week’s (stunningly attractive!) redesigned Observer, I wrote about a plan from the Spitzer people to panic Republicans Senators into defecting to the Democrats.
The idea would be not only to install a friendly majority in the Senate but to diminish the influence of Sheldon Silver, who has emerged as Spitzer’s Moriarty-type nemesis in Albany.
According to a senior administration official, the contrast between the Senate Dems and the Assembly Dems would “make clear that there is a reform wing of the Democratic Party and a status quo wing of the party a reform wing of the Democratic Party and a status quo wing of the party.”
Also in the paper, Felix Ortiz criticizes the establishment.
And Adolfo Carrion looks at the 2009 mayoral field and laughs.
— Azi Paybarah
