John Riley

Democratic State Senate candidate Brian Foley announced he’s been endorsed by Clinton, saying “together, we can bring change to Albany - change that will make a real difference.”

Speaking of change, anybody keeping count of the number of Democrats touting their support of (or from) Barack Obama, compared to Clinton?

Obama may be the Democratic presidential nominee, but there, Clinton is still the more coveted endorsement, it seems.

Anyway, this is the latest endorsement of Clinton that’s been touted by Democrats running for office around the state. She’s also endosed Don Barber for State Senate in Cortland, and Mike McMahon for Congress on Staten Island.  read more »

I just got off a somewhat contentious conference call with Hillary Clinton surrogates for New York reporters , who proved somewhat resistant to the pro-Hillary Clinton message coming from Chuck Schumer.

Referring to her primary win in New York yesterday, Schumer told reporters, “This was all Hillary. There was no big party machine in operation. There was no, you know, kind of things like that. It was Hillary.”

I asked him to explain that, given that virtually the entire party establishment was in her corner.  read more »

Newsday's John Riley think it's "just wonderful" the way Eliot Spitzer "thinks it's OK to diverge 177 degrees from the truth" and "thinks the solution to critical press coverage is to cut off reporters who write it?"

George Pataki will open an office in Iowa this week followed by one in New Hampshire soon.

Andrew Cuomo gets endorsed by a group representing 20,000 law enforcement agents.

Tom Suozzi has more than $500,000 left in the bank, which makes Michael Cooper think that maybe "we will have him to kick around."

A dead parakeet was once sent to Alan Hevesi, providing part of the excuse for his use of that state employee as a chauffeur. Hevesi said he'll repay the state $82,000 for the driver.

New York Magazine's new blog, Early and Often, writes, "In another state, John Faso would be the guy with money."

Mark Green goes on NY1 tonight.

Oprah endorses Barack Obama.  read more »

And Alan Hevesi's opponent, Christopher Callaghan, poses by a window.

-- Azi Paybarah