Suozzi: I’m Not Running For Governor
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- April
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A few stories today about Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi—here and here—about him potentially running for governor again in 2010. But he said this morning, he’s not doing it.
“I am not running for governor against David Paterson,” Suozzi said this morning on Fred Dicker’s radio show in Albany. “He is my candidate. I support the governor. ”
Suozzi was crushed by Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 Democratic primary but has made a mends with state Democrats after his defeat. In fact, Spitzer named him chairman of his property tax cap commission, looking at whether to establish a cap on school property taxes.
“I am going to do everything I can to help him succeed,” Suozzi said of Paterson.
To that point, Suozzi’s chief counsel Bill Cunningham is set to join the Paterson administration in a similar role, Suozzi said. The appointment is expected to be announced 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. 
