Up close, Paladino seems an awful lot like Spitzer
Photo credit: Getty Images, 2010 | Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer attends a forum on the future of New York at the New York Public Library in Manhattan. (Sept. 16, 2010)
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Could Carl Paladino, in some curious way, be Western New York's answer to Manhattanite Eliot Spitzer?
Sure, the differences are plain. Spitzer was an Ivy League-educated Democrat with backing from unions and liberal groups, who glided into the governorship in 2006 after eight years as a Wall Street-whacking attorney general.
Paladino - a former Democrat who at one time even contributed...
