Meng quickly calls a witness, Kennedy tests positive for Ambien
Briefing: Kennedy. MMR Dad via flickr
6:06 pm Jul. 25, 20121
2012
A Jewish Republican blogger catches Doug Schoen saying Obama may not have enough Jewish support to win Florida. [Yossie Gestetner]
City Council
A moment of silence for the Israeli athletes killed at the Olympics in Munich 40 years ago. [NYCouncil]
How the City Council pushed the NYPD to investigate more vehicular accidents. [John Del Signore]
The headline on Assemblywoman Deborah Glick's email responding to the Council approving the NYU expansion: "NYC Council to Greenwich Village: DROP DEAD"
Albany
Headline: "New Yorkers Wary of Cuomo Running for President, Poll Finds" [Thomas Kaplan]
Headline: "Cuomo's popularity soars in N.Y., but voters unsure of presidential bid" [Thomas Adams]
Following an unflattering column in the Times, Cuomo wrote a letter to head of the Public Service Commission urging them to settle the Con Ed lockout. [Celeste Katz]
SD-17
Democrat Simcha Felder accused Republican David Storobin of paying for signatures and forgery. A Storobin campaign aide refuted the charges. [Colin Campbell]
SD-21
Mindy Meyer can't ID Dean Skelos or Sheldon Silver. [Jen Chung]
Flashback: She wasn't familiar with Cuomo either. [Azi Paybarah]
Legal
A blood test found Ambien in Kerry Kennedy's system. [Jim Fitzgerald]
Note: She did tell the arresting officer she "might have taken an Ambien rather than a thyroid pill." [Pauline Kim]
Former Assemblyman Jimmy Meng didn't even leave the courthouse before he dialed the witness cooperating with prosecutors in the federal corruption trail against him. [John Marzulli]
"Asked if he understood the warning [from the judge, Jimmy] Meng whispered, 'yes, yes,' and hung his head low." [Mitchel Maddux]
Everyone is now talking about Mindy Meyer so what she does not know who the "Three Men in a Room" are.
Once she is elected she will meet them.
I am sure Skelos will love to come to Brooklyn and introduce himself to her and bring a nice CHECK.
Before there was the "Oracle of Delphi" there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli
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