2012: “Clinton poked a little light-hearted fun” at Perry. [Newsmax.com]
2012: The firemen who heard Clinton’s remarks laughed. [NY Post]
2012: The story gets picked up by the wires. [AP]
2012: Romney notes only other candidate with private sector experience is Herman Cain. [S.A. Miller / NY Post]
2012: Perry touts “We created more jobs than any other state in the nation – from June of 2009 until present…Nobody in this race can say that.” [Huffington Post]
2012: “I can think of no reason why anyone who, for some unaccountable reason, supports Michele Bachmann will not move over to Perry.” [Richard Cohen / Daily News]
2012: “Republicans have yet to articulate a clear and compelling case for the White House — other than that they’re ‘not Obama.’” [NY Post]
2012: “Both parties’ primary systems give far too much weight to a small coterie of true believers.” [New York Times]
2013: “[Quinn] is unapologetic about her move to the middle, and brushes off her critics as ‘naïve’ ideologues. ‘There’s very few things in life…where there are angels and devils. Everything is usually more complicated than that.’ ” [David Chen / New York Times]
NY-9: Schumer to endorse Weprin. [Celeste Katz / Daily News]
NY-9: Turner defends opposition to Park51 and use of 9/11 imagery. “I’m not even remotely backing off it.” [Michael Saul / WSJ]
NY-9: “[Turner’s] campaign is geared around nationalizing the race and winning the support of Democrats who are dissatisfied with the president.” [Alex Isenstadt / Politico]
VP: Biden was in the Hamptons with tech entrepreneur David Bohnett and his partner, Tom Gregory. [Page Six / NY Post]
Transporting Cuomo: “It cost New York about $13,000 to shuttle Gov. Andrew Cuomo on state-owned aircract for six months.” [AP]
Reading Cuomo: He “seemed rudderless when it came to the Port Authority.” [Bill Hamond / Daily News]
County Chairman: “With strong hints from statewide Democrats close to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that his services are no longer required, [Erie County Democratic Chairman Len] Lenihan is quietly slipping out the door.” [Robert McCarthy / Buffalo News]
Ethics: “The new commission will mark the first time an independent body has been in charge of overseeing legislative ethics.” [Jon Campbell / Poughkeepsie Journal]
Labor: CSEA ratifies deal with Cuomo; avoids layoffs. [Democrat and Chronicle]
Labor: Unofficial vote was 60-40 in favor of the contract. [Rick Karlin / Times Union]
Labor: CSEA ratification is a big win for Cuomo. [Erik Kriss / NY Post]
Labor: “[R]atification also goes a long way toward validating Mr. Cuomo’s strategy for dealing with public workers.” [Thomas Kaplan / New York Times]
City Council: Former Councilman Jennings is best-funded challenger to Ruben Wills. [Lisa Colangelo / Daily News]
Taxis: Assemblyman Kellner urges Cuomo to block Bloomberg’s taxi plan until more cabs are handicap accessible. [Ken Lovett / Daily News]
Monroe: Incumbent GOP County Exec seeks unprecedented third term; Dem challenger vows to create integrity office. [Jill Terreri / Democrat and Chronicle]
World Police & Fire Games: No events on Staten Island. [Judy Randall / SI Advance]
Third Party: New SI chairman of Libertarian Party is Dave Narby. [Tom Wrobleski / SI Advance]
Fire: Judge blocks Bloomberg plan to eliminate emergency call boxes. [Benjamin Weiser / New York Times]
Health: State health officials support Oswego County’s decision not to spray insecticides, despite “a dozen positive tests for Eastern equine encephalitis this summer and the death of a 4-year-old girl.” [Teri Weaver / Post-Standard]
Taxes: GOP candidates are proposing “most radically conservative positions of any set of candidates at least since Barry M. Goldwater in 1964.” [Steven Rattner / New York Times]
And Attorney General Schneiderman’s push against a settlement with BofA gets a boost from Nevada’s Attorney General. [David McLaughlin / Business Week]
