UFT Threatens To Use Its Own Campaign Funds To Destroy Spitzer
The Times has an article out tonight saying business leaders and labor are joining together to put a stake through Spitzer's run for city comptroller:
Business leaders leapt into the ruckus, finding common cause with organized labor as they described Mr. Spitzer as ill-suited to the job of managing the city’s multibillion-dollar pension system and policing city spending.
Such a post, said Kathryn S. Wylde, the head of the New York City Partnership, made up mainly of real estate, Wall Street and insurance firms, requires intense collaboration and diplomacy with the mayor’s office, the business community and municipal labor unions.
“The tone of the Spitzer announcement and history suggest that’s not the way he would approach the job,” she said in an interview.
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It appeared that the muscle for the anti-Spitzer operation might emerge from the city’s labor unions, which view Mr.