Albany political Indian summer
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- October
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 Gov. Spitzer and Republicans actually had some nice things to say about each other today. That’s a man-bites-dog-style development because they have been mostly at each other’s throats for months.
 At an announcement of a $5 million grant to GE as part of a $39 million investment that will bring 500 well paying jobs to down-at-the-mouth Schenectady within three years, Spitzer actually praised three Republican lawmakers on the dais.
  Spitzer called the deal “truly a bipartisan effort.’’ At a similar announcement in Rochester two weeks ago, there was not a Republican elected official to be seen.
 ”We’re all on the same page with economic development,’’ said Sen. Hgh Farley, R-Niskayuna, Schenectady County.
  Farley was actually allowed to speak. Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, R-Schenectady, was poised to tell a story about how his father worked in a GE foundry for 40 years, but was merely introduced and allowed to sit on the dais.
 “That’s OK, my mouth was full of saliva anyway,’’ Tedisco said later – right after he announced he and other GOP lawmakers are suing the governor to try to block his plan to issue drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants.
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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. 
