Posted on 03/14/2008 5:30:56 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
liot Spitzer vowed to shake up government and politics in New York. He did so in ways absolutely no one anticipated.
By dallying with a call-girl ring known as the Emperors Club VIP—the name augured power and cost Spitzer his—he brought to office a remarkable new governor who may succeed in achieving Spitzer’s goals through methods nothing like those of the man who once called himself a “steamroller.”
While David A. Paterson, who will take over Monday as New York’s first African American governor, can be a fierce Democratic partisan, he is positively courtly toward his Republican adversaries and often entertains them with his wit.
State Sen. Kemp Hannon offered a litany of the stylistic contrasts between Spitzer and Paterson that called to mind Oscar and Felix of “The Odd Couple.”
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