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From The Record:

Those endorsements and a load of cash have both campaigns primed for the debate to be carried live online Friday and broadcast on television Sunday.

Schneiderman, 55, reported raising more than $312,000 in the past week, with $1 million on hand for campaigning.

Donations included $50,000 from the Colorado-based Democratic Attorneys General Association and $25,000 from a Pennsylvania-based law firm known for class-action shareholder suits, Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check.

Donovan, 53, reported raising more than $414,000 since his last required report in mid-July. “We will be very competitive through the end of the campaign,” Lam said.

Donovan, who’s running on both the Republican and Conservative Party lines, reported $444,000 on hand and receiving $10,000 from former Republican Sen. Alfonse D’Amato. Other donations included $30,000 from New York real estate mogul Peter Kalikow and $25,000 from Florida-based Yankee Global Enterprises, which owns the New York baseball team.

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From LoHud.com:

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice endorsed Eric Schneiderman for attorney general after she lost to him in the primary, but now she’s saying that she shouldn’t be endorsing anyone because of a code of conduct for sitting district attorneys and is no longer supporting any candidates.

She also said she backed Queens Assembly candidate Francisco Moya, but that using the word “endorse” was the wrong choice of words.

“After a hard fought five-way Democratic primary election for attorney general, it was important for all five Democrats in the race to unite behind a common purpose of promoting safe communities and standing up for New Yorkers,” she said in a statement this morning.

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From Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

Six candidates are running for New York attorney general. Five are in a Sept. 14 Democratic primary. The winner will face Republican Daniel Donovan Nov. 2. They are:

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, 45, of Locust Valley. Former assistant U.S. attorney in Philadelphia. Former assistant district attorney in Brooklyn. Graduate of Catholic University and Touro Law School

State Sen. Eric Schneiderman, 55, of Manhattan. Giving up re-election to his legislative seat to run. Chairs the Senate Codes Committee. Former attorney in private practice, federal judge’s law clerk, Berkshire County, Mass., sheriff’s deputy. Graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School.

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From Capitol Confidential:

“Earlier this year, I publicly pledged that if I was elected Attorney General, I would not run for higher office as the sitting Attorney General. I wanted to restore New Yorkers’ confidence that they were electing someone focused on the job at hand – not on their own future career aspirations. I believe that by making this pledge, it de-politicizes the office and sends a reassuring message that every decision I make as Attorney General is based on facts and evidence, not on a desire to use the office as a stepping stone to further my own personal ambitions.

“Today I am calling on my opponent to take the same public pledge. New Yorkers deserve to know State Senator Schneiderman’s view on this matter. Voters are tired of the fact that for too long, ‘A.G.’ has stood for ‘Aspiring Governor,’ not Attorney General. The job of Attorney General is a critical one, and it is one that should be conducted properly, without any interference or influence of political or personal considerations.

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From SILive.com:

The battle for state attorney general has gotten off to an incendiary start, with Republican Daniel Donovan and Democrat Eric Schneiderman trading barbs over everything from abortion and sex offenders to Bernie Kerik.

But as Donovan, 53, looks to become the first Staten Islander elected to statewide office since the 1800s, he likes the position he’s in, especially after a Quinnipiac University poll last week showed him 1 point behind Schneiderman.

“We’re in tremendous shape,” Donovan, the Island district attorney, told the Advance in an exclusive telephone interview.

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From The New York Observer:

In the down-ballot but (slightly) more high-minded attorney general’s race, both the campaigns of Republican Dan Donovan and Democrat Eric Schneiderman were out with releases early this morning attacking the other guy’s fitness for the job.

Donovan highlight a report in today’s New York Post which called out Schneiderman for a bill he introduced that that would let private lawyers file securities-fraud lawsuits against New York firms on behalf of investors in mutual funds or the state pension fund. Business groups say it would be “a magnet for class action lawsuits” and a boon to trial lawyers, while costing the state jobs.

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From NYDailyNews:

Flame-throwing Republican Carl Paladino is within striking distance of overtaking longtime gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, a shocking new poll finds, according to our State Capitol Bureau Chief, Ken Lovett.

Among likely voters, Democrat Cuomo has a paltry 49% to 43% lead over Paladino, the maverick Buffalo businessman who won a shocking and decisive victory last week in the GOP primary against Rick Lazio, the Quinnipiac University poll finds.

Quinnipiac’s findings are in stark contrast to a Rasmussen poll released Monday that showed Cuomo with a more robust 54% to 38% lead.

Cuomo “might be a victim of his own excess,” Quinnipiac pollster Maurice Carroll said. “Politicians and polls have depicted him so relentlessly as a sure thing that he might be a victim of the ‘throw the bums out’ attitude that hits incumbents in this angr

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From the New York Post:

State Sen. Eric Schneiderman (D-Manhattan) defeated Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice last night for the Democratic nomination for attorney general.

With 94 percent of the vote counted, the veteran lawmaker led Rice 34-31 percent in the party’s five-way contest to succeed gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo.

Prosecutor-turned-trial lawyer Sean Coffey ranked third, while Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester) and former Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo brought up the rear.

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From PortWashingtonPatch:

Democratic state attorney general candidate Kathleen Rice remains confident of victory as the nail biter close election enters its final hours.

Campaigning at the Long Island Railroad entrance to Penn Station Monday evening, a scant 12 hours before polls open, Rice, the two term Nassau County district attorney, stressed many of her key campaign points during an interview with Patch. Rice continued to hammer her qualifications for the state’s top legal post, stressing her work as DA, along with her work as a federal prosecutor and with the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.

“I am the only person in the race who has run a law enforcement agency,” Rice said. “I am the only candidate who has run a large law firm.”

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