Aubertine explains what went on —

It was no “ladder match” after all — though Sen. Darrel Aubertine said this morning he got a kick out of David’s post yesterday.
Aubertine said what happened yesterday was that a deal to temporarily share power by giving Democrats and Republicans alternating control over the state Senate — just to get this session’s business done — was in the works yesterday. This morning, he said the deal fell apart in the closing minutes when Republicans insisted that Sen. Pedro Espada remain as Senate President Pro Tem even on days the Democrats were in charge. (Espada is the “renegade” Democrat who joined the Republicans in the couop June 8. He was elected Pro Tem byt the GOP-plus-two bloc that day.) Here’s my conversation with Darrel Aubertine from earlier this morning (but not early enough to make it on The 8 O’clock Hour).