This really makes me wonder if this guy will be able to continue to govern effectively. It’s his was or the highway and that is not leadership and or working together for the benefit of the people.
Spitzer is wrong on licensing illegals plain and simple. Who is he to judge another elected officials character? One term governor, he is to dam power power hungry and a control freak.
“He is wrong at every level – dead wrong, factually wrong, legally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong,” Spitzer huffed.
September 28, 2007 — Anyone who still wonders whether Gov. Spitzer has the capacity to send the State Police after a despised po litical enemy need only witness the rhetorical tap dance he did yesterday on a putative political friend – to wit, Mayor Bloomberg.
Hizzoner had the temerity to question the efficacy of Spitzer’s new driver’s-license policy. He noted, collegially, that the city’s lawyers fear that the policy – which will grant licenses to illegal foreigners – will conflict with new rules from Washington.
“I’m really skeptical that we should be issuing driver’s licenses willy-nilly,” Mike added, “because it then leads to lots of other problems . . . but it’s the governor’s call.”
A reasonable view, no?
Not to Spitzer.
“He is wrong at every level – dead wrong, factually wrong, legally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong,” Spitzer huffed.
Now, governors and mayors of New York are historically natural enemies – like cats and dogs or, more to the point, like Rockefeller and Lindsay or Cuomo and Koch or Pataki and Giuliani.
Their interests rarely align; they compete constantly for resources – and, usually, they just flat don’t like each other.
But they get along, at least in public, because it’s necessary that they do so.
Bloomberg’s concerns, frankly, are legitimate. A number of county clerks, in fact, are incensed about the policy.
But that’s not the point……….more–>
