Which was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion by a power player?
1. Actor Fred Thompson establishing an exploratory committee for president.
2. Viola Plummer, an aide to NYC Councilman Charles Barron, calling for the end of Councilman Leroy Comrie’s career “if it takes an assassination of his a--” — after Comrie declined to support a street-naming for deceased self-described “anti-white” activist Robert “Sonny” Carson.
3. State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announcing plans to monitor Columbia University and a group of financial aid officers for the next five years as part of larger settlements with both.