If New York State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, were go on American Idol, what song would he sing? Easy, “I Shot the Sheriff.” The New York Times [1]:
ALBANY, July 23 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer [2] indefinitely suspended his communications director and reassigned another top official today after Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo [3]‘s office issued a scathing report accusing the governor’s staff of using the State Police for political purposes
Cuomo in one play has diminished New York State Governor, Eliot Spitzer’s reputation and at the same time helped his standing with the state republcans. Not bad for an attorney general who wants to be governor.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise [4], blogs:
Spitzer is an incredibly smart, vigilant, and well-connected individual. I can’t believe that the governor’s senior staffers could have undertaken such a project without his acquiescence. If Spitzer didn’t know his administration was misusing the State Police and misrepresenting media freedom of information requests to monitor his main political rival, it was because he didn’t want to know.
Lindsay you forgot arrogant and ambitious.