ALBANY—Begin the office jockeying. For all the talk of equitable treatment, Republicans and Democrats expect a major shake-up in the size and location of offices for various state senators and their staffers. These decisions are made by the secretary of the Senate -- now Angelo Aponte, a Staten Islander who was Malcolm Smith's chief of staff and co-chair of ...

Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party, on the State Senate cliffhanger: “We don’t know yet. We think things are going well. We think we are going to flip the New York State Senate from Republican to Democrat-hyphen-Working Families.” Mr. Cantor was at the state Democrats' party in the midtown Sheraton. “Two is all we need," he ...

Alec Baldwin robocalls for Brian Foley! [Liz] Both Clintons are robocalling for State Senate candidate Joe Addabbo. [CC] Whoever wins Buffalo's congressional race--Alice Kryzan or Chris Lee--could lose the job when the state sheds a congressional district in 2012. [Buffalo Business Journal] A blogger wishes eminent domain was a larger part of political campaigns, but notes a ...

Here's a sign Democrats hope Barack Obama's coattails extend to Long Island, where challenger Brian Foley is trying to unseat incumbent Republican State Senator Caesar Trunzo. The other side of the flier features Foley's face, some of his positions ("cut property taxes," "lower health care costs") and includes a familiar tagline: "The Change We Need."