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In our political rundown, Kellyanne Conway and Gerson Borrero squared off over vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Watch the video above.

Tonight’s guests include: Tom Golisano; Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman.

In a story that could have political implications, Lee & Hauser write: “A naked and apparently emotionally disturbed man fell to his death from a building ledge in Brooklyn on Wednesday after an officer shot him with a Taser stun gun, the police said. The police and witnesses said he had been yelling at passers-by and swinging a long light bulb tube at officers before he fell.”

Willie Neuman reports: “A top city official warned on Wednesday that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was putting its relations with City Hall at risk by deciding to make official city vehicles, including fire trucks and police cruisers, pay tolls to cross the authority’s bridges and tunnels. Despite the warning from the official, Mark Page, the city budget director, the authority’s board decided to go ahead with the new charges by an unusually close vote of 7 to 6. Among those voting against the measure were Mr. Page and the three other mayoral appointees on the board.”

David K. writes: “The House of Representatives’ Committee on Standards of Official Conduct voted on Wednesday to begin an ethics investigation into the personal finances and fund-raising of Representative Charles B. Rangel. Mr. Rangel, a Harlem Democrat whose position as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee makes him one of the most powerful members of Congress, has faced an assortment of allegations during the past three months: accepting several rent-stabilized apartments from a Manhattan developer; using his Congressional stationery to solicit donations for a City University of New York center named after him; and failing to report — and pay taxes on — $75,000 in rental income he made from a villa in the Dominican Republic.”

New York Post

From Albany, Brendan Scott writes: “The Republican Party sits perilously close to surrendering its four-decade lock on the state Senate, according to a poll released yesterday. The survey of six hotly contested districts by the Siena Research Institute found two veteran Republican senators, Serphin Maltese of Queens and Caesar Trunzo of Suffolk County, facing their toughest races in recent memory.”

David Seifman reports: “Mayor Bloomberg dangled his strongest hint yet yesterday that he's considering a third term. The hint came when Bloomberg joined seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong at the Clinton Global Initiative in Midtown. Armstrong recently announced that he's planning a comeback to help publicize an initiative to combat cancer. ‘I like your comments about coming back and doing it again, but that's a whole other issue,’ Bloomberg said.”

Seifman also notes: “Taxpayers here will feel the fallout of the "very tough economic times" facing Albany and that could include higher state taxes, Mayor Bloomberg warned yesterday.”

A Post trio writes: “The new ethics officer for the city Department of Education should know all about professional lapses - for years she held a similar job with deposed, ethics-challenged former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, The Post has learned. Samantha Biletsky, 38 - who for nearly a dozen years worked for Hevesi in his successive stints as city and state comptroller - was appointed to the $103,000 post last month, education officials said.”

Goldenberg & Seifman report: “With no public review, Mayor Bloomberg doled out $19.5 million to community groups suggested by a small band of legislators between 2003 and this year, when he ended the practice, according to records released yesterday by the Mayor's Office.”

In an op-ed column, Ground Zero pit-bull Steve Cuozzo asks: “Does Gov. Paterson have any idea what he's talking about when it comes to Ground Zero? The question is urgent. Chris Ward, the Port Authority executive director, is to release his much anticipated report on Ground Zero rebuilding on Oct. 2 - and that may trigger even more paralysis. Ward is expected to sharpen his warning that the PATH terminal project must be scaled back or it will further delay everything else at the site. Yet Paterson puts the PATH scheme ahead of the office buildings in his list of priorities. Worse, the governor seems not to have a clue as to what the project actually is, much less that the boondoggle is holding up the works all around it.”

New York Daily News

Dave Goldiner looks at Eliot Spitzer’s first interview since he resigned – with Time Out New York: “These days I prefer hanging out with my kids—having dinner and encouraging them to do their homework and put aside Facebook for awhile.”

Adam Lisberg notes: “The Wisconsin company that earned Mayor Bloomberg's ire by selling paint kits for rifles and handguns is firing back - by selling a bright-red shade called ‘Furious Mike.’ ‘As long as he keeps attacking, we'll keep fighting back,’ said Steve Lauer of Lauer Custom Weaponry, which sells kits in 145 colors. ‘He's just trying to put me out of business.’"

And Lisberg also reports: “Long after the final out, Shea Stadium will live on in the hearts and memories of Met fans - and in park bathrooms, rec centers and pools citywide. The Parks Department, which owns both Shea and Yankee stadiums, plans to salvage countless items in the days after the Mets play their final game - stockpiling doors, toilets, sinks, lights and other workaday supplies that will be installed in city parks for years to come.”

John Lauinger notes: “The controversial plan to turn Willets Point into a glitzy megadevelopment got the green light Wednesday from the City Planning Commission, setting the stage for a final showdown in the City Council. The potential for the city to use eminent domain to acquire private land in the gritty industrial zone is expected to fuel fierce debate in the Council, which now has 60 days to cast a make-or-break vote on the project.”

In his op-ed column, Errol Louis looks at the struggle to keep one Queens community center open.

The edit-heads are very supportive of the Willets Point redevelopment plan.

New York Sun

Elizabeth Green reports: “The percentage of new teachers in New York City public schools who are black has fallen substantially since 2002, dropping to 13% in the last school year from 27% in 2001-02, city figures show.”

Ben Sarlin notes: “City Council members are calling on the state to give New York City children the day off from school on two Muslim holidays.”

Until tomorrow.

Bob Hardt

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