SSD-7 breaks records
The New York Times: The Nassau special election has officially surpassed all records for a state legislative race, with a price tag now above $5,000,000.
Underscoring the importance of the race: both the republican and Democratic Presidential frontrunners campaigned in-district yesterday:
Hillary...
...and Rudy, sans Bernie Kerik (all images NYT).
Newsday reports remarks by Senator Malcolm Smith that winning this race, with some party-switchers, could wrest the Senate from the enfeebled republican clutches. He mentions a 'zone of potential agreement', 'ZOPA', on which we'll have a few things to say when the time comes.
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