Note to the New York State Republican Party: Don't despair - you may not have to settle for John Spencer just yet. There are still about a dozen registered Republicans left in New York who you haven't asked yet.

Memo to Governor Pataki: You can come back home. Now that the elections are over, endangered Republican candidates throughout the state no longer need to avoid being seen with you.

[Also Monday, the host committee for the Republican National Convention in New York is releasing new TV and radio ads featuring former Mayor Ed Koch and Minnie, a 7,500-pound elephant.] While they're here, make nice, ... Volunteer to show 'em the ropes. They won't know uptown from downtown. They've never ordered pizza by the slice. They don't know from alternate-side-of-the-street parking.

He had a wonderful interview with Bono during the Republican National Convention in New York. It made me think twice about Bono.

To comply with that direction, the state party began a policy of only posting the first few paragraphs of AP stories, while making sure to clearly mark them as excerpts on the site. The state party does not use this excerpting policy with stories from any other news outlet. It would be happy to post AP stories in full on its Web site, and would have, had it not been instructed otherwise by The Associated Press.

I would be surprised if there wasn't a registered traveler project up at one or all of the [New York] airports by September.