The more things change…
-
- January
- 2
Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno didn’t give much reason for optimism today.
  2008 “will be a great year,’’ Bruno said in a radio interview this morning. But Bruno, who has been battling with Gov. Eliot Spitzer for the last six months or so, then added, “we have an executive who apparently can’t lead.’’
    His latest complaint against Spitzer is that the governor won’t negotiate the future of the New York Racing Association in public. Spitzer said on Monday that there was a temporary deal to let the scandal-scarred group to run racing at three of the state’s four thoroughbred tracks (Saratoga, Belmont and Aqueduct) but still no long-term settlement on what group will hold the reins.
 “It’s 2008. It’s time to turn the page,’’ said Bruno, whose focus this year will likely be on working to hold or expand the Republiocans’ tenuous (33-29) hold on the Senate in the November elections. “But I need a partner.’‘
This entry was posted
on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 at 11:11 am by Jay Gallagher.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Share and Enjoy: | 
Print This Post
| 
Email This Post
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. 
