Another Tri-State Governor in Scandal
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A dynamic young governor near the New York media spotlight is suddenly derailed by scandal. In 2004, it was Connecticut’s John Rowland, followed quickly by New Jersey’s Jim McGreevey.
On Monday, prostitution allegations against New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer threatened to make him the third governor in the tri-state area to lose his job in shocking, humiliating fashion in less than four years.
“It’s troubling,” said Gary Rose, politics professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield. “They were all rising stars - all three of them. I think it could cause some voters to really look below the surface. You wonder what lies beneath a lot of the imagery.”