New York Democrats designate Spitzer for governor

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New York's Democratic Party on Tuesday designated Eliot Spitzer as its candidate for governor. In his acceptance speech, he spoke of his grandparents, all immigrants, coming to Ellis Island and his father who rose from a New York City tenement to become an engineer.

People from across the country and all over the world looked to our state about what is best in America," Spitzer said. "I still believe that if we give everyone the same opportunity and everyone acts with integrity and plays by the same rules, there is no limit to what we can achieve in this great state."

"Something needs to change in this state, and it needs to happen right now," he said, after entering the convention center to the strains of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down." "Ours is a crisis of leadership," he said. The 46-year-old attorney general who forced nationwide reforms of Wall Street and corporate America is the front-runner to be the first new governor in New York in 12 years.

Outside the Buffalo Convention Center where the party leaders met, Democrat Tom Suozzi was scheduled to continue his outsider campaign at about the same time as Spitzer's acceptance speech. He wants to force a September primary with Spitzer to become the party nominee in November. The Nassau County executive is seeking thousands of petitions to get on the ballot and refers to the Democratic convention as Spitzer's
"coronation" by bosses of the state's largest party.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-lisuoz0531,0,3713724.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Suozzi can go bite me.

He'll be lucky to get 10,000 short of the needed signatures.

[zalinda]

2. Unless Spitzer does something really stupid, or

did something really stupid, and was found out, he's got the election sewn up. Even repubs respect him.

zalinda