No Leaders Meeting Today
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- July
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The warring Senate sides can’t even negotiate to sit down together in public session to discuss their differences.
After saying yesterday that they were open to a public leaders meeting, Democrats didn’t convene a meeting today with Republicans.
Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran said Democrats don’t want to be subjected to Republicans showing more videos, as Republican Sen. Dean Skelos and rogue Democrat Pedro Espada did yesterday when they replayed the June 8 coup. Democrats didn’t show up.
But Senate Republican spokesman John McArdle said no videos were planned. He said the staffs talked last night about the terms of a public leaders meeting, but the talks have broken down.
“The Democrats refuse to meet,” he said.
Senate Republicans asked Gov. David Paterson to intervene yesterday, saying he should call the sides together and either have a meeting in public or call them together behind closed doors. But no response from the governor on whether he will do that.
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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. 
