Sometimes, the best thing to say is nothing. And, last week, while Republicans criticized Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's remarks that compared a broad swath of upstate to Appalachia, Spitzer's Democratic rival said nothing publicly.

But while Appal-gate played out, it appears that Tom Suozzi was able to make some quiet gains in the northern part of the state. The former mayor of Auburn, N.Y., Guy Cosentino, wrote an op-ed in the Auburn Citizen yesterday supportive of Suozzi:

State Democrats may have hoped the attorney general would not have to expend any of his sizable war chest prior to the November campaign, but he has started to run ads in upstate New York, likely to counter the Suozzi ads.

At this point, Tom Suozzi may only be a fly in the anointment, but he does have something worth saying.

Combined with the news, broken by the Times Union's Elizabeth Benjamin, that upstate billionaire Tom Golisano and wealthy Nassau County resident Ken Langone (of Home Depot) are talking about uniting in an anti-Spitzer effort, it's been a week of quiet good news for Suozzi's campaign.