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Assemb. results: Good night for GOP on LI
Final yet still to be certified numbers in Nassau Assembly race:
MICHAEL A MONTESANO R 3,016 MICHAEL A MONTESANO I 252 MICHAEL A MONTESANO C 600 3,868 MATTHEW T MENG D 1,539
In the Suffolk Assembly race:
Candidate Party Votes Share
MURRAY, L DEAN Republican 3,159 
38.59%Conservative 837 10.22%School Tax Relief 190 2.32%Total 4,186 51.14%THODEN, LAUREN E Democratic 3,304 40.36%Independence 468 5.72%Working Families 228 2.79%Total 4,000 48.86%
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Special elections: some slow results from Nassau
Make what you will of this:
In the special election Tuesday in the 3rd AD, Suffolk County reported 100 percent of its election results on its Web site by 9:35 p.m.
Republican L. Dean Murray edged out Democrat Lauren Thoden in unofficial results.
In the special election in the 15th AD, the Nassau County Board of Election had nothing — zero — at that point, and did not post any results until 10:02 p.m., when it had Republican Michael Montesano with a wide lead over Democrat Matt Meng, but only 25 percent of precincts reporting.
But the lead held up and Montesano won easily. (Nassau had 106 of 109 EDs by 10:20 p.m. and we’re going home to beat the snow.)
Tags: Nassau elections, Suffolk elections, Michael Montesano, Matt Meng, Dean Murray, Lauren Thoden
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Monserrate booted; will sue in federal court
After a little more than a year in the state Senate, domestic-abuse misdemeanant Hiram Monserrate, an ex-police officer, was voted out of the body tonight.
A key early actor in the effort was first-term Sen. Brian Foley (D-Blue Point) who authored and sponsored the initial resolution. He'd bade Monserrate resign or face expulsion.
The vote was 53-8. More details here.
Monserrate was one of the Democrats who crossed over to the Republican conference to help carry out that surprise coup against the razor-thin Democratic majority last June. He scrambled back to the Democratic side, tying the membership for a time.
Monserrate is readying a challenge to the vote in federal court, contending that the body did not have the legal authority to expel him.
The outcome of that case could set an important precedent since it's the first expulsion of its kind in generations..
Below is Monserrate's earlier appeal to the Senate.
Tags: Hiram Monserrate, Albany
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NY, LI political news upcoming...
Still to come, later:
Results on special state Assembly races in the region are due after the polls close 9 p.m.
A result from Albany of the move to expel, censure, or do nothing about Sen. Hiram Monserrate.
Gov. David Paterson goes on the Larry King show after 9 p.m on Thursday night*. to dispute rumors.
*Corrected from error earlier
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NY Politics 2010: Pimps and pundits
Just goes to show you where in the social pecking order politicians stand -- always above the working press!
Here's Kristin Davis, who was the Eliot Spitzer madam, announcing her intention to run for governor, with the help of Roger Stone, the Republican consultant who was once on the Joe Bruno payroll.
Meantime it is Ashley Dupre -- who did the actual hands-on work for Eliot via the same organization -- who does the column for the New York Post. (Can she write an endorsement for Kirsten?)
So the pimp becomes the pol, the ho becomes the pundit. Any questions?
Tags: Kristin Davis, Ashley Dupre, Eliot Spitzer, Albany
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Paterson: Still in office, still besieged
Once again, dawn spread her rosy fingers across the sky to see Gov. David Paterson still in office. The lead from the Buffalo News:
ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson did not resign from office Monday under a cloud of scandal. Nor did he do so Sunday, or Saturday or every other day since last Wednesday, when he was supposedly going to have to flee from office in the aftermath of a newspaper account of some personal failing.
Prodded by "shocking" and "stunning" and "bombshell" authoritatively-written reports by several newspaper blog sites, and then picked up by liberal and conservative political and gossip blogs across the country, Albany has been overtaken by the newest form of scandal: one that hasn't even been revealed.
Sure, Liz B. says here that Fred Dicker manages to repeat and condemn the rumors at the same time. But Dicker hits salient point in his piece: That esteem for Paterson is so low that people in NY political circles are ready to believe the wildest things about him. The Daily News, turning up the volume on its editorial judgement that Paterson needs to be dumped, meanwhile touts the rumors and denials as evidence of chaos on the governor's watch.
Tags: David Paterson, Albany
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Judges in a jam? They call Cohn
Pay raises for judges? Attorney Steven Cohn is there for them.
Mandatory retirement for judges at age 76? Cohn is there for them too.
The Carle Place attorney was officially named Tuesday as the attorney of record for retired Justice William LaMarca, who was forced off the Nassau bench in December after he hit 76.
LaMarca sued, arguing that he was elected in 2000 at age 67 and was entitled to serve out his 14-year-term.
Cohn replaces LaMarca’s original lawyer, Michael Montesano, who is running for the Assembly in Tuesday’s special election to fill the vacancy left when Rob Walker joined the Mangano administration.
Cohn also represented one set of judges in the three lawsuits charging that the failure of the legislature to raise their pay violates the state constitution. That case is pending before the state Court of Appeals.
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Koch urges Dems to take Palin seriously
Beware Sarah Palin; she’s no laughing matter, says former New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch.
The veteran Democrat had this to say, in his most recent e-mail, about the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate:
“Those who decry Sarah Palin’s speech before the Tea Party this past weekend and her political ambitions are foolish. She was terrific in both delivery and substance. She gave them what they wanted: red meat. She still scares me to death, but I urge Democrats not to underrate her.”
Tags: Edward Koch, Sarah Palin, Tea Party
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Nass., Suff., Queens have Assemb. specials Tues.
In the 15th AD, covering parts of Nassau, Republican Rob Walker vacated the seat to become deputy to Nassau Executive Ed Mangano. Lawyer Michael Montesano is running on the Republican, Independence and Conservative lines and Matthew Meng, an auto repair businessman, is on the Democratic line.
In the 3d A.D. voters in part of Suffolk will choose between Democrat Lauren Thoden and Dean Murray. Thoden worked on the staff of Patricia Eddington who was elected Brookhaven clerk in November. Murray owns an ad agency and has the Conservative line; Thoden has the Independence and Working Families lines.
In Queens, in the 24th A.D., former Councilman David Weprin is running to succeed his brother Mark Weprin, who took the Council seat in November. Looking to avert the Democratic siblings' switcheroo is Bob Friedrich, a local business owner.
Special elections are notorious for low turnout.Tags: Suffolk, Nassau, New York City, Albany
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News derivatives dip with stern Gov denial
From the Associated Press
"ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. David Paterson
is lashing back at what he calls an orchestrated, scandalous assault on his character that includes unsubstantiated accusations about womanizing and drug use that he flatly denies.
The Democratic governor tells The Associated Press that the media and New York politics have hit new lows, but it won’t stop him from serving in office or seeking election to a full term in the fall.
He cited one published report that he was caught by state police in the mansion with a woman other than his wife as fabricated. He said the room in which he was reportedly caught doesn’t even exist.
He would only address other accusations broadly, but denied all the
sexual relationships and drug use that are among the unproven
accusations."Suddenly, for this nanosecond, it looks like the speculation market on other news organizations' disclosures is drooping. If the Times comes out with something less than satisfactory in the Paterson-damage department, however, it could give rise to a new round of unsubstantiated yak that the editors there were somehow talked out of the juicy stuff. So it's a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose proposition from the point of view of investors in the resignation bubble.
Further reports after the market re-opens tomorrow.
Update: This piece from Wayne Barrett could also drive prices down.
Tags: David Paterson, Albany
