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What’s This About?
Posted by Roger Snyder | September 28, 2006
[The Green party candidate for Governor is Malachy McCourt. -RS]
[From Inside Long Island Politics - Spin Cycle]
A couple of weeks ago, the Spitzer campaign released an ad called Responsibility Road. It featured Spitzer narrating a tour that he took with running mate David Paterson, of Paterson’s old school, which had signs in the hallway with lessons for life.
“Recently my running mate, David Paterson, and I toured the school he attended as a child, walking past the very same hall signs he did forty years ago,” Spitzer said. Except that a sharp-eyed reporter figured out that, actually, Spitzer never set foot in the school.
Seemed pretty petty, and still does in some ways. But today we have this editorial from the New York Sun, saying that Spitzer’s “campaign has been refusing to speak with reporters of The New York Sun, following our Jacob Gershman’s reporting on how the Democratic candidate has been using a jet provided by an individual who will have gambling interests awaiting a decision by the state.”
So let’s start making a list of all the things that are going to change on Day One. First, we’ll have a governor who thinks it’s OK to diverge 177 degrees from the truth if it helps him make a good political ad? Second, we’ll have a petulant prima donna who thinks the solution to critical press coverage is to cut off reporters who write it?
Just wonderful.
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