State Senate Democrats Name Transition Team
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Former Monroe County Democratic chairwoman Fran Weisberg has been named as one of the co-chairs of the transition team for state Senate Democrats as they prepare to take the majority in January.
Angelo Aponte, of Staten Island and former state housing commissioner, was named one of the other co-chairs. Weisberg, party chairwoman in the late 1980s, is executive director of the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency.
James Eagan, a financial adviser from Buffalo will serve as vice chair and upstate advisor. Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf will serve as director of communications.
Smith also appointed Donald Carey, of Yonkers, and Martin Scheinman of Long Island as Co-Chairs for the Subcommittee on Legislation and Policy.
Stan Grayson, of Manhattan, has been appointed Chair of the Subcommittee on Recruitment.
Other Transition Team members include:
Margaret Guarino, of Manhattan, is head of the Housing Finance Group for Banc of America Securities; Dr. Hugo Morales, of Yonkers, a trustee of the City University of New York; and Irene Stein, of Ithaca, a retired Director of the Tompkins County office for the Aging.
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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. 
