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Dispatches from Planet AlbanyAuthor: WCNY
Dispatches from Planet Albany is brought to you by David Lombardo, host of WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom. The weekly conversations are a smart and funny encapsulation of the discussions reporters and sources have off the microphone at the Capitol in Albany. This inside baseball is for listeners who know the acronym ELFA, anxiously await the legislative calendar drop each December, or fondly recall the Poozer Politics podcast. Language: en Genres: Government, News, Politics Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Polling complaints, fast talking, CLCPA rollback and legislative process
Episode 20
Tuesday, 10 March, 2026
It's a grab bag episode featuring clips from the Capitol Pressroom cutting room floor and a new interview about a polling experiment. Up first, Siena Research Institute pollster Steve Greenberg addresses a decision to ask registered voters to weigh in on quotes from the gubernatorial candidates, without knowing who the statements actually came from. We consider how the experiment could have been more useful and discuss what the latest poll says about Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman's embrace of the work by ICE agents. And in the rest of the show we talk about the legislative process with Sen. James Skoufis, hear a joke from Assembly Ways & Means Committee Chair Gary Pretlow, and get reactions from Assembly members Didi Barrett and John McDonald to the governor's likely push to scale back the CLCPA. And if you enjoy Dispatches from Planet Albany, please leave us a rating and consider becoming a recurring contributor to support the podcast (because we could really use the money).
