The Tom Suozzi for Governor campaign just sent out this note to supporters:

Early next week Tom Suozzi is going to submit enough petition signatures to earn him a spot on the primary election ballot for Governor of New York. Our campaign to Fix Albany has officially begun!

That is unless frontrunner Eliot Spitzer decides to challenge Suozzi's petition signatures or try other legal machinations to keep him off the ballot. But that may be a story for another day.

Suozzi, who has gotten nothing but bad news from pollsters and even some political allies, got a welcome boost from Newsday today when the paper said Spitzer should cave in and give Suozzi more than the one debate that has been scheduled between them:

People who live north and west of the Tappan Zee bridge face extraordinary - and for this state, unique - economic problems. The more prosperous suburbs east and north of the city have their own issues that deserve airing. Let's hear Spitzer and Suozzi - one on one - all over the state.

The Democratic playbook in the 2006 New York governor's race calls for Spitzer to simply bury Suozzi and march to a coronation in Albany. It's slowly getting harder and harder for Spitzer to pull that off.