Elsewhere: Lieberman, Spitzer
Joe Lieberman hints at switching parties over the Iraq War resolution.
Two more officials backing Hillary Clinton have financial ties to her campaign.
The groups fighting Eliot Spitzer's health care spending cuts are hiring.
They also have a new website.
GOP state Senator Serph Maltese said he was offered a job by Spitzer, but refused to take it.
NYS GOP Chairman said Vinny Ignizio's win on Staten Island Tuesday was "important first step for the Republican Party down the road back to victory in New York."
Dan Janison says that Mike Bloomberg's bullpen style of governing has not started a trend.
Aaron Naparstek has all you want to know about speed lumps.
The National Rifle Association will probably endorse a White House candidate after each party's conventions.
Rock Hackshaw congratulates the winner of the City Council race in Brooklyn whose "political knowledge seemed minimal at best."
More than 280 people have commented on the "find the illegal immigrant" game played by NYU College Republicans.
A Polish-name joke in the New Yorker has drawn criticism.
And above is a classic video of Rudy Giuliani circa 1996, courtesy of City Hall gadfly-cum-reporter Rafael Martinez Alequin.
-- Azi Paybarah
Rudy was a great Mayor and will be a great President.
GOP comment about Ignizio is a bit of a stretch...it's a heavily GOP district and the person who won was a GOP assemblymember and chair of the party until the race started.
Please don't assume that there are only two real candidates for President in 2008, an impression the media for inexplicable reasons would like most Americans to believe or accept.
We in New Mexico and Westerners in general take New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson very seriously, and point to the Nevada forum yesterday, where he did very very well, and yet not a word in today's New York Times. It is shortsighted and seriously flawed thinking by media and by pundits which ignores such a candidate of Richardson's calibre, at least in the context of New York politics.
His resume is a breath of international fresh air, and he has more real governmental experience than Hillary and Obama PUT TOGETHER! Richardson was re-elected to a second term by a record number (70%) and I am certain he is going to pull in a huge number of Hispanic votes, particularly in California, Texas, and Florida. We need an internationalist as in former UN Ambassador to help rebuild the ravaged US international perception after 6 years of corporate manipulation and plutocracy, a nation run by the Halliburtons of America.
We think Richardson is the right person for the job. We've seen him in action with the Legislature here, and his legislative agenda as President can be discerned by his efforts at the state level.
Stephen Fox
Hey, while Aaron Naparstek is the editor of Streetsblog, the byline on the Speed Lumps post is Clarence Eckerson Jr.
The next president of the United States of America, has not declared his '08 intention.