«I don't really know him well enough, but I don't have signals from him yet that some of the issues central to communities of color are really on his radar yet,» Sen. Velmanette Montgomery said of AG Andrew Cuomo. (nystateofpolitics.com)
A clear majority of voters (59 - 21) say all candidates for state office should sign a pledge in support of a nonpartisan independent redistricting commission — a victory for both former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose PAC, New York Uprising, is pushing candidates to do just that; and also for AG Andrew Cuomo, who is calling for citizens and candidates alike to sign his reform pledge. (nystateofpolitics.com)
Local Democrats like Assemblyman Guillermo Linares and Mark Levine, who lost to Espaillat in the September 2010 primary for AG Eric Schneiderman's old seat, would then scramble for Adriano's Senate seat and start circulating petitions. (nystateofpolitics.com)