Albany's Insanity

But, but… what about Byron Brown? Antoine Thompson is waiting for that to happen, he wants to be the next mayor of Buffalo. I am sure they are thinking that this is not fair. Brown has been grooming himself to be Lt Gov and A. Thompson so wants to be mayor… I can sense a state of depression coming when they hear this news.

To date, speculation about a potential running mate for Cuomo has focused on two upstaters: Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, who is black, and Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy, who is white.

Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión is bored working for the Obama administration and is angling to return to New York politics – as Andrew Cuomo’s lieutenant governor.

Sources close to Carrión confirm he’s been reaching out to Democratic operatives and former staffers to gauge interest in his potential comeback.

So far, the only spot Carrión has expressed interest in is running mate to Cuomo, the presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee. A win could set Carrión up to run for mayor in 2013.

Here’s the catch: Carrión wants to be asked to run, sources said, not the other way around. So far, there has been no response from the Cuomo camp.

“If he gets out too far in front of the Cuomos, he’s dead,” said one Democratic insider. “They want to be in control of everything. They don’t want other people telling them what to do.”

Those on the receiving end of Carrión’s pitch say it includes the fact that he’d help with ticket-balancing by being the lone Latino on the ballot and perhaps the first Latino to win statewide office.

He also has suggested that his time in Washington as President Obama’s urban czar has improved his ties to big-money donors.

Carrión hasn’t mentioned the conflict-of-interest scandal exposed by the Daily News in March 2009 in which he failed to pay an architect who designed a renovation of his City Island home. He finally ponied up, two years late.