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New York Daily News Odds and Ends by Liz Benjamin

Odds and Ends

We could be here at the Capitol all night. Or not.

Still no verdict in the trial of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

Soon-to-be-former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi is disappointed.

Mayor Bloomberg will headline another fundraiser for Massachusetts US Senate hopeful Alan Khazei.

AG Andrew Cuomo got a shout-out on "The View" for booting 3,500 sex offenders off Facebook.

The Observer dubs Cuomo a "new Sheriff in the cyberworld."

Unsuccessful Manhattan DA candidate Richard Aborn has returned to his post as president of the Citizens Crime Commission.

Nassau County Comptroller Howard Weitzman also conceded defeat.

Bill Thompson's mayoral campaign tab: $9,003,711. (Not even one-tenth of Bloomberg's spending).

Former Rep. Vito Fossella sounds off.

Rep. Mike McMahon might be too busy fundraising to catch President Obama's West Point speech.

Senate candidate Jessica Crawford has a campaign Web site.

AIDS Day protestors were arrested outside Gracie Mansion.

Doug Hoffman still thinks he was robbed in NY-23.

Just how vulnerable is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand?

Here's a helpful tool: A New York City political calendar.

Richard Lipsky accuses the Times of going soft on the WFP.

Crain's editorial director Greg David is departing.

Here's the mayor valiantly saving the life of a medical mannequin at Elmhurst Hospital Center yesterday. (He steps in at around the 1:16 mark).