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Is there an office that attorney & former gubernatorial candidate (against Spitzer) John Faso is not being considered for?
Granted, the GOP doesn’t have a very deep bench, but after Guiliani and Pataki, Faso is one of the best-known, and certainly one of the most well-respected conservative thinkers in the State.
In a wide-ranging interview today on The Capitol Pressroom, John Faso talks about the state’s financial picture, Governor Paterson’s quagmire, Andrew Cuomo and of course, John Faso’s plans for the future.
Will he run? If so, for what?
Plus, the Empire Page’s Peter Pollack joins us with analysis of yesterday’s extraordinary session, and a preview of what could transpire today.
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Before I even tell you what’s on today’s show you need to run, or at least quickly type www.gawker.com into your computer.
Whether you’re a wonk, a reporter or just an interested party, this dissection of emails between reporters & the Spitzer administration in the days leading up to the Governor’s fall from grace is positively illuminating.
Go forth and be illuminated.
My ultimate goal with The Capitol Pressroom is to break down the political and policy decisions in Albany for two reasons:
1. To make them easy to understand.
2. To make them easy to understand why they are relevant to your life.
I have some help with that today. Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb will be spending (almost) the entire morning with me talking about the upstate/downstate divide; his role in Leaders’ meetings as he sees it; and issues of critical importance to his constituents in central and western New York that the state’s current NYC leadership isn’t addressing.
Plus, Rick Karlin of the Times Union and Kyle Hughes of NYSNYS.com will join me with the day’s news.
And if your overly manicured sister-in-law finds it distasteful to travel north of the Tappen Zee bridge (or Southeast of Niagara Falls), Mary Darcy and Greg Dahlmann of All Over Albany will make it more palatable for both her… and you.
Today on The Capitol Pressroom we will be speaking to: NYS Speaker Sheldon Silver, Jimmy Vielkind of the Observer, Ken Lovett of the New York Daily News, John Sheehan of the Adirondack Council, and Steve Greenberg of the Siena Poll.
