Poll: Eliot Spitzer Sporting Big Leads

[cal04]

State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has better than 2-1 leads over potential Republican rivals in the 2006 governor's race, including former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld and billionaire businessman B. Thomas Golisano, a statewide poll reported Friday.

``He would like Election Day to be tomorrow,'' said Lee Miringoff, head of Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion. The latest Marist poll had Spitzer leading Golisano, 61 percent to 26 percent. Golisano is the three-time losing gubernatorial candidate of New York's Independence Party, but is considering switching to the GOP this year and seeking its nomination for governor.

Democrat Spitzer leads Weld, a native New Yorker, 63 percent to 21 percent.
The Marist poll found Spitzer with better than 3-1 leads over three other potential GOP rivals including former state Assembly Minority Leader John Faso, state Assemblyman Patrick Manning of Dutchess County and Randy Daniels, New York's former secretary of state.

Republican Gov. George Pataki, eyeing a run for the White House in 2008, announced in late July he would not seek a fourth, four-year term.Marist's telephone poll of 707 registered voters was conducted Sept. 26-27 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_273120930.html

[tompayne1]

1. HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!

Eliot Spitzer would be such a blessing for NY especially if Ferrer (spelling?) gets NYC

[Ignacio Upton]

2. Spitzer 2006!

I'll be proud to vote for him next November

[newyawker99]

3. Go Elliot!! I can't wait to vote for him in November!

:bounce:

[mdrudge]

4. William Weld

There is more to the story… concerning William Weld (former
Gov. of Mass) and purported candidate for NY Gov.

This where Weld left last month to mount his Gubernatorial
campaign:


Financially troubled college 'temporarily closed'
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--collegecomplaints1025oct25,0,2481375.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork


Major Troubles for Decker College
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/06/decker

School connected to Weld investigated
http://www.wnyt.com/x5483.xml?ag=x995&sb=x183


Federal search warrants served at Decker College campuses
http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=3990758&nav=F2DO


Building and Construction Trades Department Calls for State
and Federal Investigations of the Associated Builders and
Contractors Ties To Scandal- Ridden Decker College
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051019/new030.html?.v=21



Prior to purchasing Decker College  Leeds Weld owned Franklin
Career Services 

Decker College Closes Campuses Amid Lawsuits, Federal
Investigations
http://www.aacrao.org/transcript/index.cfm?fuseaction=show_view&doc_id=2886


Franklin was in collusion with the Student Finance Corporation
to defraud insurance company/investors:

Federal Court of Appeals Affirms Lower Court Ruling Enforcing
Royal Policies and Remands for Calculation of Losses
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051004005673&newsLang=en

Royal & Sun legal battle over US student loan insurance
extended
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2005/10/04/afx2259023.html

About Leeds Weld:

Ex-New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani chairs the board of
advisors to Leeds Weld & Co.

The Board of Advisors of Leeds Weld Equity Partners IV, L.P.
also includes: Richard W. Riley, former U.S. Secretary of
Education in the Clinton Administration and former two-term
governor of South Carolina; Lamar Alexander, former U.S.
Secretary of Education in the first Bush Administration and
former two-term Governor of Tennessee; Thomas F. McLarty, III,
Vice Chairman of Kissinger McLarty Associates; Richard I.
Beattie, Chairman of the law firm of Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett and former General Counsel of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter
Administration; and Barry Munitz, President of the J. Paul
Getty Trust in Santa Monica, California and former chancellor
of the California State University System.

[newyawker99]

5. Hi mdrudge!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: