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Eliot Spitzer
Democrat
Eliot Spitzer was born in the Bronx in 1959. He was elected in 1998 and 2002 as State Attorney General where he distinguished himself by pursuing fraud in various Wall Street stalwarts. Spitzer won the Democratic Gubernatorial primary in September with 81% of the vote. As a child, Spitzer was expected to debate political issues with his siblings at nightly family dinners.
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John Faso
Republican
John Faso grew up on Long Island and graduated from the Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens. He graduated from State University of New York at Brockport and earned his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1979. John Faso has served in the State Assembly from Columbia County. Chaired Governor Pataki's budget transition team in 1994. Faso left his post as Minority Leader to run for state Comptroller in 2002 as the candidate of the Republican, Conservative and Independence parties. Faso narrowly lost that race.
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| The Hot Seat 2006 Candidates on the Record with Brian Lehrer |
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| New York Governor | ELIOT SPITZER profile | JOHN FASO profile |
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| CFE and School Funding | "...I've always said money is necessary but not sufficient..." listen to the complete response: |
"...If money alone were the solution, we'd already have the finest educational system..." listen to the complete response: |
| Development | "...and we should move [these projects] as quickly as we can to continue bringing into the marketplace thousands and thousands of units of additional housing." | "We could use sales tax money from gasoline for transit and rail projects throughout the state and city." |
| Immigration | "Suddenly becoming the INS is not a wise approach." | "We have to have the federal government enforce the borders and have a tamper proof Social Security system." |
| Poverty | "We need to bring an enormous group that has fallen below the radar screen into that group that can compete." | "The key is that we have private sector involvement and reform workers' comp and the scaffolding law." |
| Rent Stabilization law | "The element of that law that needs to be examined is the $2000 threshold." | "I support it as is." |
| Social Issues | "We would draft a [gay marriage] bill and introduce it because it's in accord with what I believe. " | "I'm against gay marriage but I'm open to civil unions." | Vote 2006: Complete Election Coverage from WNYC |
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