Fortunately, Elliot Spitzer was around and game enough to take on corporate wrongdoers. Yes, his tactics may have been heavy handed but, does anyone really believe that there was not some fire behind the smoke?
Let us hope that, if there is wrongdoing when he is Governor, his successor follows in his steps.
I cannot see Governor Spitzer taking this sort of lead role.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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The most intriguing parts of this well-timed profile of Eliot Spitzer occur at the beginning and again at the end, when the author, Brooke A. Masters, wonders just what sort of governor her subject is likely to be.
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For the last eight years, of course, Mr. Spitzer has made his name as New York State’s attorney general, with repeated high-profile suits aiming at misbehavior in business and on Wall Street in particular. He is the odds-on Democratic choice for governor in November, and though the Republicans have been sporting enough to pick an opponent, John Faso, assuming that Mr. Spitzer does not walk in front of a very large truck between now and then it looks as if the job will be his.
Would a Governor Spitzer also be a capitalist scourge — an aggressive regulator in the tradition of Theodore Roosevelt? Or will he tone down his proclivity for picking fights and settle into the comfortable liberal tradition of Albany executives like Thomas Dewey, Nelson Rockefeller and Mario Cuomo?
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