Morning briefing
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- August
- 30
Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced yesterday he vetoed a bill to limit lead in jewelry, particularly products targeted to children, among other bills. He is also being criticized for vetoing bills that would prevent people from taking ownership of property by using the “squatters rights” law and provide a biofuel use credit.
Spitzer has been focused this week on fighting a federal decision that will hamper New York’s ability to provide health care for all uninsured children. (In fact, he’s holding a press conference on the matter with U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton in New York City at this moment.)
But rarely a day goes by when he’s not facing questions about the Troopergate scandal, in which top aides released information intended to discredit the governor’s lead rival, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, a Rensselaer County Republican. He told an upstate television station yesterday that Darren Dopp—his communications director who was suspended without pay for his involvement in Troopergate and will now be returning to work—did nothing wrong.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said yesterday that he would oppose putting a board in control of the nearly $155 billion state pension fund, rather than continue to give the state comptroller sole oversight. The state attorney general and Albany County district attorney are probing whether friends of disgraced former Comptroller Alan Hevesi illegally profited from their connections.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president reversed a previous decision and said it would donate $23,000 to charity because it came from a fugitive fundraiser wanted in a $1 million scam.
A candidate for village trustee in Spring Valley, Rockland County, is being accused of attacking and trying to choke another trustee hopeful, charges he denies.
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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. 
