Party leaders defend gov against GOP
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- April
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The co-chairs of the state Democratic Committee, June O’Neill and Dave Pollak, have come to the aid of their governor, Eliot Spitzer, who was roundly criticized yesterday by state GOP Chairman  Joseph Mondello. Mondello said Spitzer had little to show for his first 100 days in office. He claimed the governor had failed on tax relief, reviving the upstate economy, opening up government and other campaign promises.
O’Neill and Pollak called Mondello’s news release “ill-conceived.”
“Without resorting to the same sophomoric exercise, it’s important to note that Mr. Mondello’s patron, Senator Bruno, could not withstand similar comparison,” the Democrats wrote, referring to the Senate majority leader from Brunswick, Rensselaer County, a powerful Republican. “The facts of the budget debate are clear,” they said.
The co-chairs said Bruno is the one “who abandoned any notion of fiscal restraint and wanted to spend $5 billion more than the governor” and “who was doing the bidding of entrenched interests.” Bruno “held the rest of the state hostage to serve the parochial concerns of his conference,” they said, referring to delays in budget negotiations because the Senate GOP wanted to spend more than the Assembly and governor.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
