NYT: Get Back To Work

by: phillip anderson

Thu Aug 23, 2007 at 10:49:20 AM EDT

Curiouser and Curiouser

New York State politics has become an arena best entered through the looking glass.First, Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s team tried to reveal the bad transportation habits of his chief Republican opponent by pushing state troopers to reveal all. Then came the investigations of his administration’s bad habits in using state troopers for political purposes. And now there is The Phone Call.
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Now that Mr. Stone, the phone call and the caller’s charges are official distractions, we’d like to add to that list of sideshows all the breast-beating in Albany these days about the Spitzer administration. Whatever the new governor’s administration did wrong, it is now just the latest excuse for legislators to avoid doing the hard stuff, like cleaning up brownfields or the scandalous way campaign dollars control politicians in New York State.

Spot on.