The Brian Lehrer Show

Tom Suozzi (Tomsuozzi.com)

Meet Tom Suozzi

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer is well-known for his high-profile Wall Street prosecutions, and is considered the frontrunner to be Democratic nominee for governor. But now he has a challenge from within his own party, from Nassau Country Executive Tom Suozzi. Also: a big picture look at the recent increase in Children's deaths and weighing in on the living wage issue.

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Tom's Test

Tom Suozzi, Nassau County Executive
- wants you to imagine him in the New York governor's mansion

» Tom Suozzi

Every Tom, Tom, and Eliot

Andrea Bernstein, WNYC reporter
- on the upcoming GOP and Democratic primaries for governor

ACS in the Hole?

Adam Lisberg, staff writer for the Daily News
and
Andrew White, director of the Center for New York City Affairs at the Milano New School for Management and Urban Policy
- do the recent deaths of children in the city show system-wide problems?

» "Agency's lackluster effort" by Adam Lisberg in the New York Daily News
» Articles by Andrew White (the New School)

Wage War

Jon Gertner, contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, wrote "Is How Much You Pay a Worker a Moral Issue?" for the most recent issue of the magazine,
- on the living wage debate

» "What Is a Living Wage?" by Jon Gertner in The New York Times Magazine