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Some excerpts from Steve Lopez’s piece on the California AGs race…

Chuck Poochigian on Jerry Brown:

“He has said in the past that
it was OK to be an anarchist,” Poochigian said, aghast at the very thought
of such wifty, tie-dyed insurrection. “Well, do you know the definition of
anarchy?” …”It's the absence of law,” he said with
disgust.”… “If the guy was running for poet laureate or head
of the parks and recreation commission or ports commissioner in Long Beach,
he'd be qualified. But the least likely job for him is attorney general. This
is a guy who's been against the will of the people on the central law-and-order
issue in the whole rubric, and that's the death penalty.”

Lopez on Brown:

Can you imagine the fun we'd be in
for with him and Gov. Schwarzenegger trading blows in Sacramento, one in a
Hummer and the other in a used hybrid?
With Schwarzenegger carrying water for California's corporate captains, and
Brown gunning for them like Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer has in New York, we'd have
a collision of two of the most entertaining political personalities in state
history.

Read the entire article here – it’s
pretty fun. 

Spitzer
Endorses Cuomo For Attorney General

The
Associated Press

September 13, 2006

NEW YORK Attorney General
Eliot Spitzer today endorsed fellow Democrat Andrew Cuomo to succeed him in
office.

The endorsement comes a
day after Cuomo beat Mark Green in the primary, 53 percent to 32 percent.

Spitzer said Cuomo, the
elder son of former Governor Mario Cuomo, “appreciates the hard work it
takes to be attorney general.”

Cuomo now faces former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine
Pirro in the general election.

Two different states, New Mexico and New York, and three different candidates – NM AG candidate Gary King, NY AG candidate Mark Green and NY Governor Candidate Eliot Spitzer have all returned contributions received from “…a New York Financier charged with sex crimes in Florida.” 

King, running against Republican Jim Bibb, returned a sizeable $15,000 contribution from Jeffrey E. Epstein “…the owner of a large ranch north of Stanley (New Mexico) that includes a 30,000-square-foot mansion, was indicted in Florida last month on a charge of felony solicitation of prostitution.”

  “Gary King said Tuesday he had never met Epstein face to face even though the New York financier had purchased the land from his family.” – how many candidates have never met the guy who gave them $15,000 for their campaigns? 

Incumbent New York Attorney General, and current candidate for Governor Eliot Spitzer is returning $100,000 he received from the indicted financier. Mark Green already returned the $10,000 he received from Epstein.

It was saucy – just like primary debates are supposed to be.

You can read the entire article here.

Some highlights to make you read the entire article (in case you haven't already clicked through):

Mark Green assailed Andrew Cuomo for not enforcing the law during his time as HUD Secretary under President Clinton which resulted in a lawsuit filed by none other than New York’s own Eliot Spitzer against the Federal government.  The case is ongoing, and Green contends that Cuomo would have to both prosecute and defend the case at the same time.

Candidates Charlie King and Sean Patrick Maloney criticized Green for his “negative” campaigning – for that matter so did Geraldine Ferraro and Comedian/political activist Randy Credico – must be a NYC thing. 

NY1 Reporter Rita Nissan got Cuomo to admit that he hasn’t prosecuted a case since 1984, and his defense was that Eliot Spitzer hadn’t spent an hour in a courtroom since 1998.  Solid response Andrew, real solid.

And in the interesting category, candidate Charlie King was the only candidate to “…say “yes” to whether Spitzer went too far in his Wall Street investigations, whether public employees should be able to strike and whether he's lived his life without a ever getting a speeding ticket.”

The lone Republican candidate is former prosecutor and judge Jeanine Pirro.  

The Associated Press has labeled this race as the
Republican’s “best chance” to claim a statewide office in NY
this fall. 
Even Dem hopeful Andrew Cuomo agrees it will be “a competitive
race”.   With less than three months to go, this race is shaping up to be one of the best in town. 

‘“Democrat
Andrew Cuomo conceded Tuesday that he doesn't expect an easy time against
Republican Jeanine Pirro if he wins his party's nomination for state attorney
general.  ‘I expect it to be a
competitive race,’ Cuomo said. ‘I'm working very hard toward November.
I'm going from one end of the state to the other. I think upstate New York is going to be
key.’”

Cuomo, endorsed Tuesday
by the New York State Professional Firefighters Association, a union
representing 25,000 firefighters, made the comment a day after a statewide poll
showed Pirro, the former Westchester
County district attorney,
had narrowed the gap against the front-running Cuomo in the bid to replace
Democrat Eliot Spitzer.

The Siena College
Research Institute poll had Cuomo, a former federal housing secretary and elder
son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, leading Pirro, 50 percent to 35 percent. A June
survey from the Albany-area polling institute had Cuomo leading Pirro, 54
percent to 28 percent.

Pirro so far is the
Republican with the best chance to keep Democrats from sweeping statewide
offices in November.”

Click here
to read the full Associated Press story. 

A recent poll reveals the
momentum building within the Pirro Campaign as introduces herself to voters
across the state.  The latest
statewide poll shows Jeanine Pirro narrowing the gap against leading Dem Andrew
Cuomo by 11 percentage points.   The Associated Press
reports, “Republican Jeanine Pirro, the former Westchester County
district attorney, has narrowed the gap against front-running Democrat Andrew
Cuomo in the bid to replace Eliot Spitzer as state attorney general, a
statewide poll reported Monday. The poll, from Siena College's
Research Institute, had Cuomo leading Pirro 50 percent to 35 percent. A June
survey from the Albany-area polling institute had Cuomo leading Pirro 54
percent to 28 percent.”  For a
nice breakdown of the numbers click here.