Spitzer and “The Year of Governing Dangerously.”
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The magazine Vanity Fair unveiled a much-anticpated article today about Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s first year in office and it’s not very kind to the governor.
â€Å“The question now is no longer how many miracles he can perform but whether he can get anything done at all. Spitzer is at one of those proverbial tipping points, poised somewhere between formidable and vulnerable, redeemable and incorrigible,” the article by David Margolick states.
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Elliot SPitzer has had the quickest and hardest fall
in popularity since he was elected in the history
of new york state..He is now damaged goods…between
trooper gate, and his illegal license program, I doubt
any democrat running for statewide office would touch
him with a ten foot poll….espeically those running
next year for the state senate..the damage is done
and it cannot be reversed….now all repbublicans
have to do is to nominate qualified mainstream
candidates…and we are back in business
Spitzer’s worst sin was his taking out Rockland District Attorney Michael Bongiorno, in a last minute quid pro quo with a large voting bloc in New Square, after praising Bongiorno, an incorruptible DA, for years. Spitzer’s deal with the New Square hasidim leaders was enough to make you vomit. (That community had supported Bongiorno for years; our governor went in at the 11th hour, and is purported to have promised New Square leadership ease in its transition to Ellenville zoning in exchange for its bloc vote for the Democrat running against Bongiorno. The Democrat won with the votes of New Square sheep. It was a cold political deal.)
Spitzer’s legacy will be this smack in the face of a fine DA, and his office, and the corruption that cost Rockland its fine prosecutorial arm. So much for non-partisan justice in New York.
Never trust a “liberal”—a contradiction in terms, given those modern-day folks who have misappropriated that word. Today’s Democrats—who are not at all “liberal” in any sense of the word—will screw Republican office holders and candidates any time they can. It is vindictive, childish anger.
I once liked and respected Spitzer, naive person that I am. But he has proved himself to be unworthy of respect. How sad, for all of us.
Fact is, he was correct in his assessment of corruption, dysfunction and arrogance in both leaders up there. His main error is not knowing that he (and Cuomo) are traveling in the same spaceship as the other two, and in assuming his big mouth could effectuate things that should have been attempted with more statesmanship and reason, he failed and withdrew. Everything he accused them of is palpable and obvious, and because of his clumsiness, it continues unabated. As for him, he seems to think that he is Hugo Chavez. He is no Hugo Chavez. Andy Spano is Hugo Chavez.
BRING BACK NICK SPANO