The Politicker

They're allied with him in the quest to wrest control of the State Senate leadership, but there are some lingering misgivings among Republicans in the chamber about the partnership with State Senator Pedro Espada Jr.

"Several of them are in ‘Oh my God, what have we done' mode," said one Republican who is close to many of the senators. "Pedro is obviously enjoying this immensely. The image of Dean standing mute while Pedro pontificates is a little much. And the general stoppage ... some are saying we never should have done it, some are saying, they should have said bring three or four or don't come."

Capitol Confidential outlines Pedro's increasing sense of grandiosity:

“I’ve laid out what I think would be a situation in which the Democrats would have their majority leader, Republicans would have their majority leader, Pedro Espada would be president pro tem, and we would have a fair and equal allocation of resources that would accomplish true bipartisanship,” he said.

This is a significant deviation from the GOP’s proposed bipartisan operating agreement, which they offered to Democrats for consideration this week.

Daily Politics on Pedro's race-baiting:

Pedro Espada Jr., who accused his fellow Democrats of racism and trying to deprive the Latino community of its highest-ranking elected official (that would be him, of course, assuming you share his opinion the June 8 coup vote was legal), will be beating that drum in Albany tomorrow when he addresses the New York Chapter of The League of United Latino American Citizens.

What a douchebag, eh?