The Working Families Party announced -- http://wfpjournal.blogspot.com/ -- yesterday the death of its Fair Share bill. It blamed the State Senate for the defeat. It made no mention of the opposition to Fair Share of Elliot Spitzer, its candidate for Gov.

Empire Zone ( http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=238 ) asked, this morning (reasonably, in my view) whether this would end WFP support for Senator Nick Spano, the Yonkers Republican whose re-election was delivered by the WFP two years ago. Spano has been active in favor progressive issues including Fair Share and Emergency Contraception during the last two years. He faces Andrea Stuart-Cousins (his opponent of two years ago) this time. Jennifer Medina quotes Dan Cantor to the effect that WFP is keeeping its options on Spano open.

UPDATE: Friday. The Capital Confidential blog of the Albany Times Union echoes the possibility the the Working Families Party may walk away from Senator Spano tied to the defeat of Fair Share. But... It reports on a meeting between WFP Director Cantor and a Bruno aide. The subject, it appears is possible Bruno support for a bill vetoed by Gov. Pataki which would categorize home day care workers as state employees for collective bargaining purposes. These workers are not, of course, actually employed by the state but their rates of pay are effectively controlled by state money. Public employee unions would end up with 50,000 or so addtional members. Would a veto override cause WFP to stick with Senator Spano?