Flipping Senators?
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- February
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With a critical Senate race tomorrow in northern New York, there’s speculation that if Democrats can win and lower the Senate majority to just one seat, Gov. Spitzer will try to flip one Republican senator to switch parties and thus bring about a tie.
The New York Post addresses that possibility today and says such a move would lead to the ouster of Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. Democrats, the story says, would seek a rules change that would allow Democrats to pick a new majority leader, if they can win the race tomorrow between Democrat Darrel Aubertine and Republican Will Barclay.
But one potential flipper, Republican Sen. Joseph Robach of Greece, Monroe County, suggested this morning he’s not going anywhere, pointing out that he was approached by the Spitzer administration last year to take an administrative post and declined.
“My focus is on the budget, doing what I can for my constituents,” Robach said. “That will come first and foremost before any outside politics, or people’s agenda.”
The Post mentions that one senator being targeted is Sen. John Bonacic, R-Mount Hope, Orange County. He could not immediately be reached for comment.
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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. 
