Cuomo’s AG-ony of defeat
Eliot leans to Green?

A close ally of Eliot Spitzer is raising questions about the front-runner in the race to succeed the attorney general - Andrew Cuomo - and says staff lawyers in Spitzer’s office share his reservations.

“Does [Cuomo] want to be attorney general, or is this simply the consolation prize when he didn’t get what he really wanted to do - to be governor?” asked Lloyd Constantine, who was a top aide to Attorney General Robert Abrams until 1991. After Spitzer lost his first bid for attorney general in 1994, he went to work for Constantine, who then chaired Spitzer’s 1998 transition team.

Constantine contributed $1,000 in May to Denise O’Donnell, a former federal prosecutor who left the attorney general race in June, and then switched his support to Mark Green, a former New York City public advocate.

“In terms of my own opinion on this - and I think it’s probably shared by the staff [at the attorney general’s office] - the résumé out there that probably best fits this office is probably Mark Green’s résumé,” he said. “I don’t know that Cuomo’s objectives give people tremendous comfort.”

The Cuomo campaign declined to respond directly to Constantine’s criticism, but dismissed him as a Green supporter.

Constantine added he hadn’t spoken to Spitzer about the race.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if someone that I know well also thinks about it that way - I just don’t know about that for a fact,” he said of the attorney general.

I guess he hasn’t kissed Spitzers ring like others have.. Oh, the humanity….