Azi Paybarah

Here’s Democratic congressional candidate Reshma Saujani greeting her latest interviewer, Sarina Jain around the 2 minute mark: “Did you use to teach at the New York Sports Club?”

Jain is a notable fitness teacher who teaches the Masala Bhangra Workout. The target audience here is clear: younger voters and Southeast Asians.

At the 3:13 mark, Saujani hits her opponent, Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney:

“A campaign like this has just never been run before in New York. We’re the first people to get on the ballot, first person to get on the ballot in about twenty years because she’s kicked everyone off the ballot before that.”

Maloney's record of clearing the ballot of primary challengers is something that came up when she was preparing to run her own primary against Senator Kristen Gillibrand.

Azi Paybarah / WNYC

Tucked inside Conservative activist David Horowitz's latest missive to reporters about the dangers of the Obama administration:

"Remember, Barack Obama is up for reelection in 2010. That means we cannot afford to focus entirely on November 2010."

Carl Paladino campaign

Tea Party gubernatorail candidate Carl Paladino, who is challenging Rick Lazio in a GOP primary, is out with a radio ad, and this poster, highlighting his opposition to the mosque slated to be built near Ground Zero.

"As Governor I will use the power of eminent domain to stop this mosque and make the site a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our country," Paladino says in the ad.

Lazio also opposes the plan. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo is in favor of it.

Lazio earlier attacked Cuomo over this issue - the first time he's really gone on the offensive. But judging from Paladino's deep pockets (he's a self-funded businessman threatening to put $10 million into the race), it's clear Lazio is reacting more to Paladino than Cuomo on this issue.

Here's the invite to State Senator Pedro Espada's town hall meeting that opponents say was deliberately not well publicized. The event is tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Bronx. The invitation says, "Limited seating. Call to register today!"

The invite was sent to reporters by a group of tenants vowing to, "storm Pedro's secret town hall." Hopefully, there'll be fun video and photographs of those of us who can't make it.

NOTE: The invite had some weird scribbling on it when I received it.

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New York Observer

• The Times says Glenn Beck was right to criticize the Obama administration's handling of the case of Shirley Sherrod, a former Georgia USDA.
• The woman at the center of the abuse case that crippled Governor Paterson’s administration speaks out and says she’ll re-file charges against former aide David Johnson.
• The scandal timeline.
• Andrew Cuomo crushes Rick Lazio, 58-27, according to pollster Rasmusssen.
• Tom Precious: “A couple of senators, one lawmaker said, are out of the country, preventing Democrats from having the 32 votes they need to pass any budget deal”