An Open Seat

As names start to float up in the contest to replace David Paterson in the State Senate -- Bill Perkins and Keith Wright first among them -- here's another: Rodney Capel. The Politicker is told that the executive director of the State Democratic Party, Rodney Capel -- also the son of Charlie Rangel's chief of staff -- is bein encouraged to run. Reached yesterday, Capel said he was too caught up in Eliot's Lieutenant Governor choice to think about his own plans.