Pataki held the governor's office for 12 years, right? Now that is a pretty good hold on NY, as well as seeing Alfonz D'Mato held the the Senate seat until Hillary flew into the state to help Schumer win in 1998.

Schumer has been fighting with Hillary to get his mug on TV more and more over the past 6 years since Hillary was able to convince the people of New York that she wanted to represent them in the Senate.

I find it amazing how the people of New York want Hillary as their senator but NOT as their president. The polls show the voters accepted her as their senator, but they are not going to give her the state on her march back to the White House.

Rudy should have run for governor, and he would have won. He is the moderate Republican the state needs now.

Once again, NYers lose the right to choose their governor. It's really a pathetic triumverant that runs Albany and we the people of NY suffer. Spitzer, should he win his likely primary, will be more of the same since he'll owe all the Albany fat cats his favors.

As a NY voter, I am ready to hail the great Governor Spitzer, and the new Democratic Congressmen and women he'll bring in upstate

Its always nice to read an article commenting on the sure-footing of a Democratic candidate for Governor of a major state and at the same time be reminded of the idiocy and small-mindedness of Fmr. Senator Jesse Helms.

Good job Sizzle.

It's very nice to meet you, Governor Spitzer.

Another important consideration is the Democrats efforts to recapture the state Senate in New York. Gerrymandering has harmed the Democrats on the state level in New York even more than the national level and the party has struggled somewhat in fundraising.

Nonetheless it remains possible with Spitizer at the top of the ticket going against an outside the mainstream Republican in Faso. Faso reminds me of New Jersey's Brent Shundler.

So, a Democratic governor could result in severe gerrymandering in the Democrats favor if Spitzer and Hillary have coattails and deliver the state senate for the party. That would further alter the balance of power in the House of Representatives in future years.

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500 Conspiracy Buffs Meet to Seek the Truth of 9/11
By ALAN FEUER

CHICAGO, June 4 -- In the ballroom foyer of the Embassy Suites Hotel, the two-day International Education and Strategy Conference for 9/11 Truth was off to a rollicking start.

In Salon Four, there was a presentation under way on the attack in Oklahoma City, while in the room next door, the splintered factions of the movement were asked -- for sake of unity -- to seek a common goal.

In the foyer, there were stick-pins for sale ("More gin, less Rummy"), and in the lecture halls discussions of the melting point of steel. "It's all documented," people said. Or: "The mass media is mass deception." Or, as strangers from the Internet shook hands: "Great to meet you. Love the work."

Such was the coming-out for the movement known as "9/11 Truth," a society of skeptics and scientists who believe the government was complicit in the terrorist attacks. In colleges and chat rooms on the Internet, this band of disbelievers has been trying for years to prove that 9/11 was an inside job.

Whatever one thinks of the claim that the state would plan, then execute, a scheme to murder thousands of its own, there was something to the fact that more than 500 people -- from Italy to Northern California -- gathered for the weekend at a major chain hotel near the runways of O'Hare International. It was, in tone, half trade show, half political convention. There were talks on the Reichstag fire and the sinking of the Battleship Maine as precedents for 9/11. There were speeches by the lawyer for James Earl Ray, who claimed that a military conspiracy killed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, and by a former operative for the British secret service, MI5.

"We feel at this point we've done a lot of solid research, but the American public still is not informed," said Michael Berger, press director for 911Truth.org, which sponsored the event. "We had to come up with a disciplined approach to get it out."

Mr. Berger, 40, is typical of 9/11 Truthers -- a group that, in its rank and file, includes professors, chain-saw operators, mothers, engineers, activists, used-book sellers, pizza deliverymen, college students, a former fringe candidate for United States Senate and a long-haired fellow named hummux (pronounced who-mook) who, on and off, lived in a cave for 15 years.

The former owner of a recycling plant outside St. Louis, Mr. Berger joined the movement when he grew skeptical of why the 9/11 Commission had failed, to his sense of sufficiency, to answer how the building at 7 World Trade Center collapsed like a ton of bricks. It was his "9/11 trigger," the incident that drew him in, he said. For others, it might be the fact that the air-defense network did not prevent the attacks that day, or the appearance of thousands of "puts" -- or short-sell bids -- on the nation's airline stocks. (The 9/11 Commission found the sales innocuous.)

Such "red flags," as they are sometimes called, were the meat and potatoes of the keynote speech on Friday night by Alex Jones, who is the William Jennings Bryan of the 9/11 band. Mr. Jones, a syndicated radio host, is known for his larynx-tearing

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