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The Empire Strikes Back
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ABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: The Speaker of the New York State Assembly is hoping to meet with Governor Eliot Spitzer, D-N.Y., to discuss moving New York's presidential primary next year from March 4 to February 5.
"The Speaker is favorably inclined to move the primary date," said Skip Carrier, a spokesman for Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the New York State Assembly.
Carrier says Speaker Silver is eager to meet with the governor because he does not want voters in his state to be left out of what is shaping up to be a very frontloaded 2008 presidential nominating contest. California, Illinois, New Jersey and Florida are rumored to be on the verge of moving their primary dates to Feb. 5.
"If the other states are moving, it's showing us that we should be in front of what they're doing," Carrier said.
Hometown presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Clinton and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani stand to benefit from New York having an earlier primary date given their popularity among voters in the state.
A New York Post story on Monday reported that Republican and Democratic legislative officials in the state of New York are secretly discussing moving the state's primary date in an effort to boost Clinton and Giuliani.
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