“Only a Republican Party headed by a Nixon would select a political hack Wall Street lobbyist to clean up Albany,” said state Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King. (No link).

John Faso is having a deja vu moment.

The battle for Row B was just a little “family fight,” said Rick Lazio.

GOP AG nominee Dan Donovan has a new campaign Website.

State Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay is getting his own radio show.

Mayor Bloomberg made a term limits joke.

Maggie Haberman games out the winners and losers (so far) at the GOP convention.

Gov. David Paterson will put budget cuts into the emergency spending bills.

Bloomberg eliminated raises for NYC teachers.

Would-be 2013 Democratic mayoral primary opponents are united against nonpartisan elections.

The former Florida GOP chairman was arrested.

Props for Lynn Krogh.

VP Joe Biden announced federal cash for the Brooklyn Bridge.

Paterson proposed an overhaul of the state’s juvenile justice system.

There are six bidders competing for the Aqueduct racino contract. (Round II).

Rudy Giuliani is heading to New Hampshire.