With Eliot Spitzer's raucous first year as governor winding down, some Capitol veterans have already begun to ask each other how - and even if - he will reach a budget agreement next spring with the State Legislature.
The queries may seem premature. But Spitzer and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Brunswick) remain engaged in a partisan war that is widely expected to extend at least until next year's election, when the results of Democratic efforts to take over the Senate will be known.
"Given the animosity between the governor and the legislature, they may have a hard time getting anything done," said Assemb. Philip Boyle (R-East Islip). Boyle, who'd served on the body between 1994 and 2002 and returned in February of last year, said he cannot recall relations as strained.
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Dan Janison