Former Mayor Ed Koch doesn't blame Democrat Andrew Cuomo for not wanting to debate anymore - even though the first one was a "joke."
"The people who put that debate together had there heads screwed on wrong," said Koch, who faulted organizers for allowing all seven candidates to take part.
"The only thing that you're required to do, historically, if you're ahead - and [Cuomo's] way ahead - is to give one debate."
--- Debate-stealing candidate Jimmy McMillan has become the face of the Rent is Too Damn High Party - but he doesn't belong to it
The state Board of Elections says McMillan is a registered Democrat and the Rent is Too Damn High Party isn't a party.
"They are what we call an independent body," said board spokesman John Conklin.
--- Election Day is less than two weeks away but Republicans can already claim success in demonizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Gallup Poll says.
Her approval rating has dropped to 29%, her lowest rating since she became speaker in January of 2007.
--- Republican Controller candidate Harry Wilson, who trails incumbent Democrat Thomas DiNapoli by 17 points in the Siena poll, unleashed a new ad slamming DiNapoli for backing a controversial plan to let towns borrow against the state pension fund.
"Tom DiNapoli lit the fuse on a property tax bomb you're gonna pay," says the ad's announcer.
DiNapoli fired back that Wilson slashed benefits at an upstate company his former hedge fund acquired.
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