Newsweek gets a hold of court records a reports that a judge repeatedly warned Sarah Palin and her family to stop disparaging the state trooper who was getting a divorce from Palin's sister. It's "a form of child abuse," the judge wrote.
After winning yesterday, Sheldon Silver is “stronger than ever,” writes Irene Liu.
The FDNY is looking into whether the firemen who helped Silver yesterday were on duty.
Jacob Gershman notes that Silver spent a fraction of his campaign money, but still twice as much as his two opponents spent, combined.
Here’s Andrea Peyser’s analysis of Silver’s primary.
Dan Squadron beat Marty Connor.
Upstate Democratic congressional challenger Alice Kryzan defeated two well-funded primary opponents.
City Councilman Mike McMahon easily beat Steve Harrison in the Democratic Congressional primary on Staten Island; Bob Straniere won the Republican contest.
James Madore argues that upstate State Senate races are worth keeping an eye on.
Here’s audio from Assemblyman Sam Hoyt and State Senate nominee Joe Mesi’s victory parties.
J. Burke thinks Hoyt’s victory says something bad about liberals.
Michael Bloomberg said he’s considering extending term limits.
Fighting term limits is not just a New York thing.
Nancy Pelosi is standing up for Charlie Rangel, and says he's not going anywhere right now.
Susan Molinari, former Staten Island congresswoman, is joining Rudy Giuliani's law firm.
Bloomberg wants to dismantle the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Here’s the op-ed he wrote for the Wall Street Journal arguing that the city should be in charge of development at Ground Zero.
Bloomberg and Paterson said tax increases may be on the way.
The Daily News editorial board thinks Paterson got it wrong about “racial coding.”
Get ready for Bruce Blakeman, 2009!
Late yesterday the McCain campaign pounced on a comment Obama made about pigs in lipstick.
According to Ben, "The McCain campaign is now saying Obama called Palin a pig, which he didn't."
Michael Crowley says he's "speechless" over the McCain campaign's "cynicism."
The McCain campaign also came out with an ad that claims Obama pushed for sex education for kindergartners.
Marc Ambinder writes that "the gap between the implication (Obama has liberal, radical views about sexuality) and the reality in this ad is pretty big and fairly consequential."
And time spent on Palin's plane is always off the record.
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