ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York officials say the Senate's
Democratic majority won't attend Democratic Gov. David Paterson's
joint address to the Legislature Monday on trying to create a
coalition to address the state's latest fiscal crisis.
A senior Democratic official close to the majority's leaders
says the senators won't return to Albany for what the official
termed "a photo opp" for Paterson, who is languishing in the
polls as he seeks election in 2010. The official spoke on condition
of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak for the
senators.
The Senate's Republican minority and the Assembly's Democratic
majority and Republican minority plan to attend the rare midyear
address to a joint session of the Legislature called by Paterson.
