Apparently, the NY Post was very clear about who it DIDN’T want to back in the upcoming Democratic AG primary.

Neither Sen. Eric Schneiderman, who took the hardest beating in the tab’s OpEd backing Sean Coffey this morning; nor Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (a close second), nor Eric Dinallo (didn’t escape unscathed, either) were invited to interview with editorial board members, according to sources with all three campaigns.

Here’s what the Post said about Schneiderman and Brodsky:

“Bottom line: The fact that Schneiderman and Brodsky prospered in the state Legislature simply disqualifies them for higher office.”

So, I guess it stands to reason that they didn’t get invited in to chat.

Brodsky’s campaign manager Jon Lipshutz said the Westchester assemblyman, whom the Post dismissed as “an Albany fixture” and “reflexive gadfly” and hit for being too close to “poster child for Albany dysfunction” Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, would have gone to speak to the paper “if we were invited.”

“I’m sure Richard would have had a response if they had at least talked to us,” said Lipshutz. “But we’re not really broken up that we didn’t get it.”

(I think what he means is the Post isn’t exactly the kind of liberal imprimatur that moves Democratic primary voters).

Lipshutz said the assemblyman, who has not received a single newspaper endorsement to date for his AG bid, has been invited to interview with the editorial boards of every other major publication in NYC that has picked a favorite to date.

A spokesman for Schneiderman, whom the Post slammed for accepting support from the special interests he would have to investigate as AG and running a liberal campaign that has George Soros’ seal of approval, declined to comment but did confirm the senator did not interview prior to today’s endorsement editorial.

A Dinallo source said the former state Insurance Department superintendent not only didn’t interview, but asked to do so and was turned down. (Dinallo, as you’ll recall, got props from the Post for being the “lone candidate with a track record in the AG’s office,” but that was qualified with this: “It was as a top deputy to the departed Eliot Spitzer. ‘Nuff said.”)

Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice didn’t get the Post’s nod, although she was praised for her “strong record”, in part due to her “close ties” to the law firm where Silver is of counsel, Weitz & Luxenberg, which the paper says has “bankrolled fully 20 percent of her campaign treasury” along with “associated firms.”

A Rice spokesman said the DA did interview with the Post, but also took issue with the 20 percent figure, saying that even with the most “liberal” interpretation of firms associated with Weitz & Luxenberg, those contributions account for just 8 percent of more her campaign cash.

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