Calling the state "at a point of crisis" and in "dire need of leadership," Spitzer told the Associated Press he would run on a platform of pledging to restore jobs and repair the budget. "We are bleeding jobs. We need reform in the process of government," he said.
While Spitzer complimented Governor George Pataki as "somebody who I respect," he said the state needs an "energetic leader" who can change the fate of the state to once again become "the center of job creation, intellectual growth, creativity, dynamism and great ideas in government. We have been all of those things in the past 200 years, and we have lost it."
Although former New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani has not expressed interest in running for governor, his name has been floated as a possible Republican candidate, and a
Spitzer made a household name for himself by taking on trading abuses in the fund industry, conflicts of interest at investment banking firms and bid-rigging at insurance firms.
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