“You don’t mind if I sip a Coke, do you?” asked Leslie Crocker Snyder, sitting behind her desk on the 23rd-floor Broadway office on Friday afternoon, the day news broke that Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau was finally going to retire.
She estimated about 60 phone calls had come in to her office since it was reported that the man she tried to unseat four years ago is not planning to seek re-election this year.
With her political consultant Michael Tobman sitting on a nearby couch, Snyder rattled through her list of work-related experiences that have kept her busy since the last race, including working in New Orleans to help prosecutors there in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
