The Third Corner of the Tri-State is Cut: March 20, 2008 Broadcast.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Guests:
Matt Grimes: Brookfield Republican Town Committee
Gene Eriquez: Former Mayor, Danbury (1989-2001)
Al Robinson: Publisher, HatCityBLOG
Eliot Spitzer was, at the same time, one of the most admired and one of the most reviled leaders in New York state history. The energetic and powerful Attorney General who rose to political prominence as the "Sheriff of Wall Street" and rode that tidal wave to the Governor's mansion, resigned in disgrace this week after being caught in the trap he himself helped set for prostitution rings. Spitzer's fall from political stardom marks the third resignation of a Tri-State Chief Executive in just over three years as the Empire State's self-proclaimed steamroller joined Connecticut's John Rowland and New Jersey's James McGreevey. Tonight's show, we discuss the Spitzer resignation and what lies in store for new Governor David Patterson, who made history as he became America's fourth African-American Governor and the first state leader to be legally blind.