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  • NYP: ELIOT-PROOF POLS (re: N.Y.'s PRESUMPTIVE GOVERNOR, ELIOT SPITZER)

    12/09/2004 6:23:31 AM PST · by OESY · 305+ views
    New York Post ^ | December 9, 2004 | NICOLE GELINAS
    Elliot Spitzer is running for governor. The attorney general who thinks he single-handedly cleaned up Wall Street now wants to clean up Albany. But the Spitzer model of corporate governance that worked so well for him in Manhattan won't work Upstate. Spitzer was able to "reform" Wall Street only because New York's financial luminaries care about their corporate and personal reputations. New York state's officials don't. Spitzer said Tuesday that he's running for governor to "make state government more responsive and accountable." That's a fine idea — and Spitzer's pithy diagnosis of Albany's woes is apt: "The system is broken....