For state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who by the way we hear is doing well in the fundraising department for 2010, the "community partnership initiative" -- a.k.a. holding night meetings with citizens around the state -- seems a sure-fire plus. Last night he got his staffers doing what they do at at a session in the Town of North Hempstead. It drew what looked like a healthy turnout from those with questions and problems involving such gnarly issues as health insurance procedures and plans. There were positive quotes from local Democratc officials, including Supervisor Jon Kaiman, Legis. Roger Corbin, Legis. Wayne Wink and Councilwoman Lee Seeman.
Going district-to-district with earnest q and a events is an old Cuomo-family modus -- like, setting up the ombudsman's offices in the secretary-of-state's domain long ago, or those community posts in Housing and Urban Development a little less long ago, when Andrew Cuomo was in the Clinton administration.
Dan Janison