The state's top elected officials largely will be absent. (politico.com)
Two senior Democrats said Cuomo — who was faulted just a few weeks ago at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia for failing to join other top elected officials in publicly backing a Democratic Senate takeover — has come to realize he was making a primary challenge to his re-election more likely. (nypost.com)
Another party leader, well known to Cuomo and other top elected officials for many years, said convention events showed that things were so bad between the governor and the mayor that «an intervention» by New York's senior senator, Chuck Schumer, or by a group of senior Democrats, may be the only thing that could end their ongoing war. (nypost.com)