Word: governorship
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...staying in this race until there's a nominee" will find it difficult to visualize what a Clinton concession would look like. She and her husband have been the Democratic establishment for the past 16 years and they have not conceded defeat since he lost the Arkansas governorship in 1980. And she has so recently found an effective political voice, sounding a populist trumpet throughout Pennsylvania and Indiana with an energy that seems inversely related to the health of the economy...
...climbed up the political power ladder as Attorney General of New York, prosecuting white-collar crime, securities fraud, and even prostitution. He ascended to the Governorship in 2006, promising voters a change in “the ethics of Albany.” Ironically, just two years into office, Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught spending $4,300 for a few hours with a prostitute. It appears that Spitzer, more so than Albany, needs to change his brand of ethics. Given that his was a political career shaped by a fight against corporate corruption, Spitzer’s hypocrisy...
...Eliot Spitzer always had a complex relationship with authority. As attorney general of New York - the position he held for eight years before winning the governorship - he made a name for himself by aggressively prosecuting Wall Street fraud; this magazine called him "Crusader of the Year...
...admired at once, Spitzer paid his dues as New York’s Attorney General, where he dazzled with his unflinching resolve to take on Wall Street corruption and white-collar crime. He won himself a fair number of enemies but even more supporters; they catapulted him to the governorship and placed him among the Democratic Party’s most promising young politicians. Despite political stumbles, he was being considered for the national stage...
...three years remaining on Spitzer's term - is respected on both sides of the aisle. "We're fortunate that he's the one," says Perkins. He notes that Paterson maintains a strong relationship with Spitzer nemesis Joseph Bruno, the Republican State Senate majority leader, who now assumes the lieutenant governorship...