In Memoriam: Silver announced the passing of his aide, Sisa Moyo.

DCCC: Rep. Israel raises money at July 8 breakfast at Johnny’s Half Shell in DC. [Political Party Time]

2013: To negotiate better deals, unions try waiting till Bloomberg leaves. [David Seifman / NY Post]

2013: Alliance with Bloomberg and slush fund scandal “are fading, replaced by the euphoria surrounding the marriage bill.” [Jeremy Smerd / Crains]

NY9: “I’ve gotten a number of e-mails from rabbis. They said Weprin legislates as a non-observant Jew and campaigns as a devout Jew.” [Carl Campanile / NY Post]

NY9: GOP to attack Weprin for liberal voting record and they “will also argue that the district could be spared during reapportionment if they control it.” [Jeremy Smerd and Shane Kavanaugh / Crains]

NY9: “[H]eavily Democratic district.” [AP]

NY9: “[T]here’s also the question of whether the congressional seat in play will exist at all after 2012.” [Grace Rauh / NY1]

NY9: Turner’s nomination “demonstrates the weakness of Queens GOP Chairman Phil Ragusa.” [Michael Saul / WSJ]

NY9: GOP fundraiser for Turner dubbed “Weiner Rost.”

Brooklyn Kruger: Denies latest rumor, saying “I am absolutely not resigning.” [Gary Busio / NY Post]

Virginia Crowley: Adam Lisberg argues “If you don’t want your kids to go to school in the district you represent, then don’t run for congress.” [On NY1]

Political Connection: Brother-in-law and “mayor political supporter” of Columbia County DA pays $700 fine for driving drunk with kids in car. [Jimmy Vielkind / Times Union]

Quinn’s Budget: “[S]he wasn’t content with punishing just Vallone for his temerity. She also took it out on the councilman’s father.” [NY Post]

NYC Budget: Do a study to show why firehouses need to be cut. [Crains]

NYC Budget: $2.8 million in discretionary funds is “the only time Staten Island gets a little more than it’s fair share than the rest of the city,” says Oddo. [Deborah Young / SI Advance]

Tax Cap: “The tax limits in Massachusetts apparently haven’t hurt its schools.” [Cara Matthews / Democrat and Chronicle]

Medicaid: Cuomo may shelve costly eMedNY program after nearly $1 billion spent on the unfinished project. [Jacob Geshman / WSJ]

Same-Sex Marriage: Editors praise Grisanti’s marriage vote, and resources he brought back to district. [Buffalo News]

Same-Sex Marriage: Upstate wedding planner and videographer said he’ll “pleasantly decline” to service gay couples. Legal recourse? [Britney Milazzo / Lockport Journal]

Redistricting: “Where’s the governor’s bully pulpit on this issue? Is it in the trunk of the executive limo he’s driving around the state in a victory lap for the tax cap legislation that he keeps ceremonially signing, over and over?” [Jay Jochnowitz / Times Union]

Redistricting: Rep. Buerkle lobbying state lawmakers. [Mark Weiner / Post-Standard]

Manhattan DA: Steinem spokeswoman says she “made the best decision she could with the information available” when she endorsed him. Now she “hopes that Vance can take the current issues more seriously.” [Jeremy Smerd and Shane Kavanaugh / Crains]

Ending News of the World: “I for one am not altogether happy to see it go.” [Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker]

Media: Reporter arrested at murder scene; paper says he was just asking questions. [CBS 6 Albany]

Jeter: Bloomberg quick to praise him. [Twitter]

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