Spitzer: “It’s Like a Family”
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- November
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According to the Daily Politics, Gov. Spitzer met this morning in Brooklyn behind closed doors with Assembly Democrats and said afterwards that his tense relationship with them in recent months is like a family disagreeing around the dinner table.
“It’s like a family. We have a common world view, deep affection for one another, sometimes we squabble,” Spitzer says in a video clip.
After the bitter battle over drivers’ licenses for immigrants and in January over the selection of a new state comptroller, Spitzer and the Democratic-controlled Assembly may have used the meeting to make nice as the Legislature may return to session next month to deal with a host of unresolved issues.
One way Spitzer could make the Legislature happy may be through pay raises for legislators and judges—a deal that may be struck next month as part of a comprehensive agreement on campaign finance reform and who will oversee the state’s three thoroughbred tracks.
The Daily News reports that Spitzer endorsed the idea of pay raises for legislators in his meeting today.
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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. 
