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Could Spitzer Tap Cuomo To Succeed Clinton?
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 Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: Could Spitzer Tap Cuomo To Succeed Clinton? |
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 Could Spitzer Tap Cuomo To Succeed Clinton?
As Senator Clinton sustains her lead in the presidential polls, a guessing game is spreading around New York politics over whom Governor Spitzer would choose to fill her seat in the event that she's elected to the White House.
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While conventional speculation has centered on Lieutenant Governor David Paterson and Rep. Nita Lowey as plausible successors to Mrs. Clinton, the newest name popping up in conversations among local elected officials is that of one of the governor's chief political rivals, Attorney General Cuomo.
At first blush, Mr. Cuomo, who has quickly made a mark as an investigator of public corruption and consumer fraud, would seem to be an unlikely presence on Mr. Spitzer's short list.
Tensions between the two politicians go back years. Mr. Cuomo's investigation into the Spitzer administration's scheme to discredit Republican Senate leader, Joseph Bruno, which ignited two additional probes, has pulled the two offices even further apart.
Meanwhile, Mr. Cuomo is demanding greater investigative powers to crack down on public corruption, a signal that he plans to keep close tabs on the activities of the governor's office.
The common view in Albany and in the Spitzer administration is that Mr. Cuomo is keeping his options open for 2010 and would challenge Mr. Spitzer in a Democratic primary if he thought he could win.
If Mr. Spitzer wants to defuse the political threat, appointing Mr. Cuomo to fill the Senate seat and directing his ambitions to Washington could make that happen, elected officials say.
"That would be a possibility. Everything is open here," a senior Democrat in the Assembly said. Mr. Spitzer could get Mr. Cuomo "out of his life and stop him from breathing down his neck," another Democratic assemblyman said.
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