President Obama sent a video to supporters lauding Elena Kagan.

Gov. David Paterson gives Kagan a thumbs-up.

Kagan would be the court’s fifth New Yorker.

Conservatives, start your engines.

Eliot Spitzer called Kagan’s paper record “pristine.”

“There is not, nor has there been, some orchestrated effort to do anything in particular,” Spitzer told Lloyd Grove regarding his comeback tour.

CSEA President Danny Donohue had some strong words for Paterson.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver thinks furloughs are illegal – but not illegal enough to vote “no” on.

The Senate passed Sen. Neil Breslins’ resolution declaring furloughs to be illegal.

Sen. Tom Morahan is going to make a decision about whether to run this fall “very, very soon,” says his spokesman.

Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice says she and AG Andrew Cuomo are “like-minded.”

Len Levitt has a new nickname for Mayor Bloomberg: “Terrorism shtarker.”

Rupert Murdoch does not want to buy Newsweek.

The Drum Major Institute’s Harry Moroz wants Washington to end its “anti-urban bias.”

Celeste Katz has video of Rick Lazio’s LCA Show response.

Here are some images from state worker furlough protests held around the state today.

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