From the New York Post:

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s much-an ticipated announcement that he’s running for governor could come a week from Wednesday, as he holds a major fund-raiser in Manhattan, sources said last night.

An April 28 announcement makes sense because the large crowd expected at the $1,000-a-ticket Waldorf-Astoria event “will be pumped up expecting to hear something big about the governor’s race, and that would be the place to do it,” said a well-positioned source.

An announcement that day would also come just two days before the start of the nominating convention of the Democratic Rural Conference, a group with which Cuomo has strong personal and political ties.

Excitement about Cuomo’s announcement has been building in Democratic circles as the impasse over a new state budget worsens and as the attorney general moves to wrap up several high-profile investigations, including the state pension-fund scandal and a probe of embattled Bronx Democratic Sen. Pedro Espada.

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