The tally: 27 lawmakers get mentioned in spitzer speech
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| One parlor game for Albany insiders listening to today’s State of Upstate speech from Gov. Eliot Spitzer: how many legislators would be mention by name.
 Answer: 27 according to an informal count. More Democrats than Republicans, but still plenty of kodos for members of the opposite party.  Spitzer is trying to regain some political support after a disastrous year of hard-ball politics last year. The Republican-led Senate is investigating whether he lied about what he knew regarding activities of his staff to use the State Police to try to discredit Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.    Bruno didn’t make the trip to Buffalo to attend Spitzer’s speech. His wife, Barbara, died on Jan. 7 |
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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. 
