Top Senator in New York Won’t Seek Re-election
ALBANY — Joseph L. Bruno, the Senate majority leader and New York State’s highest-ranking Republican, said Monday evening that he would not seek re-election in November, after a 32-year career in the Senate.
His announcement startled people in the Capitol, many of whom have come to view Mr. Bruno, a former Army regimental boxing champion who still spars for the cameras, as almost indestructible at the age of 79.
...His decision did not appear to be related to a federal investigation of his outside business interests, according to people with knowledge of the investigation.
...The news will be a major political blow to the Albany area, which has benefited from Mr. Bruno’s ability to shower the region with pork. He represents Rensselaer County and most of Saratoga County.