Room Eight - New York Politics

• More Light Bulbs Coming On Over People's Heads

  From the blog of a Harvard University law professor, citing an investment adviser report: "Barring some sort of miraculous boom in the economy and pension fund investment returns, state and local governments are headed for insolvency and default."  Thanks once again to Pension Tsunami for calling this to [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:40pm EST
  by Larry Littlefield

• Are Fred Dicker's Insiders EVER Accurate In Their Predictions?

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:34pm EST
  by Yoda

• New Definition Of Chutzpah - Democrat Who Supported Bloomberg When He Was a Republican Attacks Democrats Supporting Mike

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  The DN's Errol Louis flagged this interview Correction Officers' Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook gave NY1 last night at Bill Thompson's party, which perfectly captures the anger among Thompson supports at Democrats who stayed on the fence.

  Seabrook, whose union endorsed Mayor Bloomberg in 2001 and 2005, [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:09am EST
  by Yoda

• All the Rest is Commentary

  I recently argued  in this space that New York State has no real political parties (with the possible exception of the Conservative). I saw nothing last night to make me re-evaluate that conclusion, but that is a talk for another time.

  Unlike in New York State, there is something [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:09am EST
  by Gatemouth