Spitzer Pushes “One New York”
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- February
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Rather than gloat over Democrats’ latest political success, Gov. Eliot Spitzer this morning pushed for “One New York” and said his budget proposal would be good for all New Yorkers.
The message comes less than two days after Democrats closed the Republican lead in the Senate to just one seat and moves Spitzer closer to having all state government under the party’s control.
Yet he’s stepping away from his tough stance last year—at least publicly—of warring with his foes. It’s all part of his 2008 message of conciliation after his first year in office was marred by his self-titled label as a “steamroller.”
“History has shown us and present circumstances dictate that we must cast aside division and come together as One New York,” Spitzer said in a speech to the Association for a Better New York in Manhattan.
“Sectionalism will not take us where we need to go if we are to transform our economy, lower health care costs and elevate our schools and universities to the next level. So it is imperative that the fundamental principle of ‘One New York’ guides our budget deliberations and it is in this spirit that we must enter the budget season.”
He reiterated his ongoing theme of “We are one State with one future, and we will rise and fall together.”
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
