- Even though Mayor Bloomberg says he'll sign the City Council's 25% pay raise (an extra $22,500 to bring the total salary to $112,500), he criticizes the fact that many City Council members are able to have other jobs, since the City Charter says City Council positions are "part-time." He also blasted the "lulus" - aka stipends of thousands of dollars - the City Council members get for chairing committees and the like. Easy for Mayor Moneybags to say!
- Rudy Giuliani has former a finance committee of backers from all over the country, many of them in the South.
- Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer's transition team committees include AmEx chairman Kenneth Chenault, banker Felix Rohatyn, and even actor Edward Norton! All eyes are on the Transportation Committee co-chair Elliot Sander, who many believe is Spitzer's pick to replace MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow.
- Mayor Bloomberg thinks one borough president just holds press conferences and not much more. (The Daily Politics think he means Manhattan Beep Scott Stringer.)
- And via the Times-Union blog, Capital Confidential, this great clip from the Daily Show about a potential President Pataki:
