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Senate split: Will 'legal chaos' send it back to court?
Spin CycleThe Senate power war, now in its third week, may be headed for a new and potentially explosive court showdown. Yes, state Supreme Court Justice Thomas McNamara last week threw out the Democrats' claim that the Republican "coalition" coup......Tags: Upper House, Malcolm Smith, Coup d'Etat, David A. Paterson, Justice System
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Senate split: New move to force court intervention?
Spin CycleHere's the surreal situation as best we understand it: First, Senate Democrats occupied the podium. They may have caught the GOP off guard the way the Republicans caught them unawares on June 8. Regardless, Republicans filed in and began......Tags: Upper House, Malcolm Smith, Regional Authority, David A. Paterson, Justice System
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Senate split: Going for the gold!
Spin CycleThe Stealth & Treachery Olympics progresses now into a new event. With wily parliamentarian Martin Connor, the former senator, on the floor, the Democrats claim that they have 32 votes because Republican Frank Padavan wandered through the chamber --......Tags: Upper House, Malcolm Smith, Local Government, Government, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)
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In red-hot Senate scrum, Dems' ex-leader faces test
Spin CycleFormer Senate Minority Leader Martin Connor (D-Brooklyn) -- a veteran lawmaker who was unseated from the post by now-Gov. David Paterson earlier in the decade -- is getting what seems to be a serious primary from Dan Squadron, a fellow......Tags: Political Candidates, David Paterson, Elections
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Busted political-bond week in NY: When $$ gets tight
Spin CycleThis is the week of the broken alliance. So on Wednesday, as noted here, the state Working Families Party, which went all out for the Eliot Spitzer-David Paterson ticket two years ago, launched an advertising assault against the new......Tags: Upper House, Regional Authority, David Paterson, Eliot Spitzer, Unions
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Golisano: No endorsements in Skelos, O. Johnson races
Spin CycleMissing from last week???s string of endorsements in State Senate races by Rochester billionaire Thomas Golisano were two prominent Long Islanders ??? Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) and Sen. Owen Johnson (R-West Babylon). James T....Tags: Jose Serrano, Upper House, West Babylon, John Flanagan, Shirley
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Seed of Chucky? Schumer alumni thrive on and off LI
Spin CycleThe national spotlight may be swinging back to Sen. Hillary Clinton, but inside the state, alumni of Charles Schumer???s Senate and Congressional offices have come to occupy a slew of political and public posts. Now, 10 years after Democrat......Tags: Upper House, Television, Parliament, Manhattan (New York City), Long Island
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Pension probe: Who's in, out of the moving spotlight
Spin CycleThat ever-swiveling spotlight, frequently pivoted by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who will tell you he's just doing his job, has swung away from AIG -- and back to the scandal surrounding investment practices in the office of former......Tags: FBI, Pension and Welfare, Defendants, Long Island, Lawyers
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