Poll: NYers embarrassed by politicians' scandals
Photo credit: AP File | Eliot Spitzer, right, and David Paterson laugh as they talk to reporters, Nov. 30, 2006, in Albany.
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Disgraced politicians
ALBANY - Two years of scandals involving governors and lawmakers has made five in 10 voters "embarrassed" to be New Yorkers, according to a new poll.
The survey released Monday by the Siena Research Institute found 54 percent of registered voters agree that the rash of scandals involving state leaders "makes me embarrassed to call myself a New Yorker." Forty-one percent said they were still...
