Heh.

So Joe Bruno resigns, causing a flurry of well-manicured despair among his upstate colleagues. Predictably, there was a minor flood of commentary about a power shift to downstate. Some of Bruno's elderly caucus-mates raised the subject in the perennial bash-that-part-of-the-state-you're-not-in efforts that they seem to need like a junkie needs crack.

Well, so much for that. Here's Skelos' first big push of the election season - against Craig Johnson, on Long Island.

So much for keeping the interests of upstate foremost on the electoral agenda.