Two New York heavyweights, Schneiderman and Lawsky, exchange opening jabs
Briefing: Eric Schneiderman. Azi Paybarah via flickr
8:30 am Jan. 30, 2012
The New York Times takes a look at the man leading the newly configured Department of Financial Services and notes that he's doing the work traditionally done by the state's attorney general. The lede: "Benjamin M. Lawsky is not the attorney general of New York State. But one could be forgiven for being confused."
The story casts the Department of Financial Services, created by Governor Andrew Cuomo last year, as an extension of Cuomo's attorney general operation—where Lawsky served as one of his top deputies—and suggests the second floor might be encroaching on the territory of New York's current attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.
The story described them as "two boxers feeling each other out in an opening round."
Trying to imagine where Cuomo is in this boxing metaphor is not easy: in Lawsky's corner, for sure, but wearing a coach's whistle, or gloves?
Some links:
2016
"The nation should follow Gov. Cuomo's balanced approach" said Ed Rendell. [Carl Campanile]
GOP 2012
"It is, as Andrew Cuomo says, a campaign about irrelevancies." [Mike Lupica]
New York, this time, could matter. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle and Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney are undecided who to back. [Mark Weiner]
2012
Online sales for Al Green jump after Obama sings "Let's Stay Together." [Braden Goyette]
NY-13
The freshman Republican congressman reportedly took envelopes of money from followers of a controversial rabbi who is now under investigation for an unrelated embezzling scheme. [Alison Leigh Cowan and William Rashbaum]
Staten Island Republicans support Grimm, who is in Florida at the moment. [Jilliam Jorgensen]
Redistricting
Cuomo's veto comments on Friday were "his most definitive to date." [Associated Press]
"Cuomo must veto the maps." [Daily News]
In the proposal, independent Democratic state senator Jeff Klein loses a town in Westchester and picks up Riverdale. Overall, he's "very happy" about what his district would look like. [Daniel Beekman]
In the new LATFOR maps, upstate has one more State Senate seat than it should. [Michael Benjamin]
Election Calendar
There could be four separate days to vote in New York this year. [Thomas Kaplan]
Ray Kelly
He said calls for his resignation were "comes the territory." [David Seifman]
Minimum Wage
Assembly Democrats' proposal to raise it to $8.25 per hour would make New York's minimum wage one of the highest in the nation. [Ken Lovett]
Bloomberg supports it. [John Eligon]
The increase would be "indexed to the rate of inflation." [Fred Dicker]
Teacher Evaluations
One Queens teacher with a $10 million real estate portfolio won't retire, despite disciplinary problems. Art accompanying the story: "Cuomo's challenge." [Susan Edelman]
Education
82.7 percent of CUNY community college freshman needed remedial reading, writing or math classes last fall. [Sudan Edelman]
Greg Kelly
"She has been forthright with the investigation and showed texts that have her not acting like a rape victim." [Brad Hamilton, Jamie Schram and Tim Perone]
"You don't text your rapist—other than to say 'You're awful" an unnamed law enforcement source told The Post. [Brad Hamilton]
"Why'd you do that?" the victim allegedly asked Kelly. [Melissa Grace, Kerry Burke and Larry McShane]
"Although prosecutors so far believe the TV hunk had consensual sex with a woman accusing him of rape" the Manhattan D.A. is taking his time doing a thorough investigation, according to a law enforcement source. [Laura Italiano]
The Third Jihad
The narrator doubts the Times saw his movie before attacking it. He also warns of the "slippery slope between nonviolent Islamism (political Islam) and Islamists' militancy." [M. Zuhdi Jasser]
Albany
Cuomo needs to block state legislation that would allow localities to ban fracking, urges a conservative editorial board. [New York Post]
Lawsky and Schneiderman "are much like two boxers feeling each other out in an opening round." Lawsky doesn't take a stand on Schneiderman's mortgage deal. [Danny Hakim]
"Schneiderman just might make Elliott Ness proud." [OppenheimLawblog.com]
Local
Paladino supports other insurgents to run against GOP incumbents. [Nick Reisman]
Squadron opposes the SoHo BID; philanthropist Henry Buhl supports it. Expect a City Council hearing in March. [Cara Buckley]
Perkins wants to ban eating on the subway. [Daniel Prendergast and Gary Buiso]
Kruger spent $7,500 on a "prison consultant." [Eric Kriss]
Liu's staff are using old business cards from predecessor Bill Thompson. [Josh Margolin]
New York City agencies using typewriters include the NYPD, Department of Buildings and Human Resource administration. [Sally Goldenberg]
The prime sponsor of New York's same-sex marriage law got married. [Ken Lovett]
Occupy Buffalo's agreement with Mayor Byron Brown's office expires Wednesday. [Mark Sommer]
Two Brennan Center officials say the City Council hasn't monitored the NYPD enough and write "We need an independent inspector general for the police department." [Faiza Patel and Elizabeth Goitein]
"Accommodating religious groups for the same fee that others pay thus does not violate the establishment clause." [Fernando Cabrera]
Images
Newt in Florida. [Mark Ovaska]
Brian Lehrer at WNYC's State of the Union Party. [wnyc]
Sunday's New York Post front page. [via newseum.org]
Sunday's Daily News front page [via newseum.org]
