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It’s called a party though it’s not a party, though even that depends whom you ask. It’s not in the business of endorsing candidates except when it is, and has no interest in the establishment even though one member is running for governor. Welcome to New York’s Tea Party movement. What began in early 2009 as a series of protests against the Obama administration’s stimulus plan and health-care legislation has grown into a bona fide political force that has asserted itself into state and local politics. (There are over 100 groups in New York state alone, although membership ranges from...

Spitzer Retreats From Another Fund Prosecution Criminal Charges Are Dropped Against an Ex-CIBC Executive, A Month After Sihpol's Case Died By TOM LAURICELLA and PAUL DAVIES Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 22, 2005; Page C1 New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer dropped another set of criminal charges stemming from the mutual-fund trading scandal, making a retreat in a case that helped build his reputation for fighting financial fraud. Officials in Mr. Spitzer's office defended his two-year-old probe of improper trading in mutual funds, noting that it had triggered sweeping overhauls in the industry and that a...