On Day Two, a top campaign manager to the new governor joined a lobbying firm that may extend its reach to Albany.

The lobbying firm is that of Suri Kasirer, New York City’s widely respected top-earning lobbyist, who is considering expanding her business into Albany.

Patrick Jenkins, a political operative from Queens who was paid about $5,400 a month to be Mr. Spitzer’s deputy campaign manager, was hired as a senior vice president at Ms. Kasirer’s firm, Kasirer Consulting, whose biggest clients include T-Mobile, the wireless phone company, and Elad Properties, a developer converting the Plaza Hotel into condominiums. Ms. Kasirer has also raised money for New York City’s comptroller, William Thompson.

Mr. Jenkins started his job the day after Mr. Spitzer signed an executive order requiring a two-year window between the time state employees leave their jobs and when they are allowed to lobby any state agency. The order, which was part of plans by Mr. Spitzer to end what he calls the “pay to play” culture of Albany, does not apply to campaign workers.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Spitzer, Christine Anderson, said the hiring of Mr. Jenkins as a lobbyist does not conflict with the governor’s message. “Patrick is a talented political operative with a long history in politics that predates his work on the Spitzer campaign,” she said. “The guidelines we’ve laid out appropriately can only apply to government employees.”

Mr. Jenkins, a resident of Jamaica, Queens, who worked as district director for Rep. Gregory Meeks between 2001 and 2005, said he is not moving to Albany and that his work for the campaign did not play a factor in his hiring. “Is Kasirer Consulting expected to expand their client base? That’s definitely true,” he said.

He said there’s a “huge difference between being a campaign employee and a state employee.” Ms. Kasirer said she has known Mr. Jenkins for a decade and has tried to recruit him for years. “I’m thrilled he has finally decided” to join the firm, she said.

New York magazine reported in November that Mrs. Kasirer, who also raised tens of thousands of dollars for the Spitzer campaign, is planning to open an “outpost” in Albany. Ms. Kasirer told The New York Sun she has not decided to open an office in the capital.

The legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, Blair Horner, who has been pressing for bans on “revolving door” lobbying to limit how much state employees and party officials profit from their connections, said he is less concerned about putting up a barrier between campaign work and lobbying. “Campaigns are shorter duration and you’re not a public servant,” Mr. Horner said. “There are some things that are reasonable to regulate and some things that are not.”

Establishing new ethics standards will be one of the themes of Mr. Spitzer’s “State of the State” address, which he is to deliver today. Past governors have used the speech to broadly articulate their spending priorities, unveil key initiatives, and build momentum for their executive budgets, which are due February 1. The first “state of the state” speeches delivered by new governors have tended to focus on the weaknesses of the state, while late-term speeches have looked back at accomplishments.

Mr. Spitzer’s administration yesterday released excerpts of his speech, which were in keeping with the governor’s campaign platform. He will call for changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system, “increased support for education,” and will announce that his budget will include the first installment of a three-year, $6 billion property tax plan relief focused on middle-class homeowners. As a candidate, Mr. Spitzer said he would expand the state’s School Tax Relief program, which channels public funds to school districts to pay for property tax exemptions for homeowners.

“The fundamental problem with the current system is that it doesn’t care whether or not a person can afford to pay their property taxes,” Mr. Spitzer will say, according to the excerpt. “Thus, the millionaire gets the same tax cut as the middle-class homeowner.”

The day after winning the election, Mr. Spitzer asked the heads of the New York State Business Council and New York State AFL-CIO to come up with a plan to reduce the cost of workers’ compensation, which in New York is estimated at 80% above the national average.

Mr. Spitzer will say that New York must “adapt to what I call the Innovation Economy,” defining it as a “knowledge-based economy of new businesses and new ideas that is the driving force of job creation in the world today.” The term has recently become fashionable among politicians and the press. Senator Mikulski of Maryland has latched on to the idea of an “innovation economy,” using it in press releases and speeches. To mark its 75th anniversary issue, Business Week devoted an entire issue in 2004 to the “innovation economy.”