Elsewhere: Spitzer, Bloomberg, Trippi
It's awards season for Eliot Spitzer's main adman.
The MTA has to pay how much in debt service?
Chuck Schumer made some new friends at New York Magazine's party last night.
Judith Kaye delivered her state of the judiciary speech today [pdf].
Hillary Clinton's official blogger has footage from the campaign trail.
Joe Trippi thinks Hillary got what she needed out of that fight with Barack Obama.
The Village Voice hired an editor from the New York Sun.
Roy Moskowitz, who managed the Democratic campaign against Rep. Vito Fossella, laments that he's not part of the "cabal" picking the replacement for the late Assemblyman John Lavelle.
There's a fascinating discussion here between Yoda, Larry Littlefield and Steve Malanga about whether Rudy Giuliani or Mike Bloomberg is to blame for New York's high tax burden.
Bloomberg's Assistant Director/Special Counsel for Environmental Procurement is leaving to take a job with the New York Chapter of the U.S. Green Buildings Council [job title corrected].
And pictured above is Senator Frank Padavan at a recent press conference in Albany.
-- Azi Paybarah
Why are we looking at Frank Padavan?
Regarding the Room 8 discussion, I am not saying Mike has nothing to do with NY's high taxes. I'm saying Rudy has something to do with it too, a fact which Malanga & others dispute.
One of the items you've lilnked to has incorrect information. The Director of the Mayor's Office of Contract Services isn't leaving. The person who is leaving the agency -- Russel Unger -- is the Assistant Director/Special Counsel for Environmental Procurement. The Director is Marla Simpson, and she isn't going anywhere.