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Article: Spitzer's dreams are coming true; On eve of all-but-certain nomination for governor, he gets a boat ride that was denied 40 years ago.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- May 30, 2006
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Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Capitol bureau
BUFFALO - On the eve of his anointment by fellow Democrats as their standard-bearer this fall, gubernatorial front-runner Eliot Spitzer fulfilled a childhood dream and also picked a fight with the Pataki administration.
The state attorney general arrived Monday afternoon in Buffalo, where Democrats are poised to make him their designated candidate for governor today at the party's state convention.
Spitzer kicked off the first leg of his statewide convention bus tour by traveling from Buffalo Niagara International Airport to Niagara Falls, where he rode the Maid of the Mist - the iconic boat that brings ...