MEET THE CANDIDATES

Governor

Democrats:

Eliot Spitzer

    Eliot Spitzer won election as state Attorney General in 1998. Re-elected in 2002, Spitzer is known for his prosecutions of white-collar crimes and for spearheading reforms in the mutual funds, securities and insurance industries. Supporters also hail his legal efforts to force aggressive enforcement of the federal Clean Air Act.
    He was born in the Bronx, attended Horace Mann High Academy and went on to Princeton University and Harvard Law School, where he edited the Harvard Law Review.  He met his wife, Silda, at Harvard Law School.  Silda and Eliot have three daughters and reside in Manhattan.  
    Spitzer began his career as a clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet. He worked from 1986 to 1992 as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan and was chief of the labor racketeering unit.   

Candidate web site: www.spitzer2006.com


Republican:

John Faso

    John Faso is a partner with the law and lobby firm of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips.  He also serves on the board of the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority. Faso was a state Assembly member from 1986 through 2002 and served as the Republican minority leader from 1998 to 2002. Faso left the Assembly to run for state Comptroller and lost to Democrat Alan Hevesi. 
    Faso headed Gov. George Pataki’s budget transition team when Pataki was first elected in 1994. Faso supervised the development of Pataki’s first budget proposal.
    John Faso grew up on Long Island, graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens and continued on to SUNY Brockport. He obtained a law degree from Georgetown University and worked on the staff of the Intergovernmental Relations subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He now lives with his wife, Mary, and two children in Columbia County.  

Candidate web site: www.johnfaso2006.com


Green Party:

Malachy McCourt
    
    Malachy McCourt is an author and actor. Brother of Angela’s Ashes author Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt wrote his own best-selling memoir A Monk Swimming.
    McCourt was born in Brooklyn but raised mostly in Ireland. He left school at 13 to work manual jobs and returned to New York, working as longshoreman, truck loader and dishwasher before becoming an actor. He performed in regional theaters, off and on Broadway, in television soap operas and movies. In the 1970s, he hosted a radio talk show.
   McCourt has five grown children with his wife Diana is grandfather to four.

Candidate web site: www.malachyforgovernor.com

New York State Comptroller

Christopher Callahan (R/C)
http://www.callaghanfornewyork.com/

Alan Hevisi: (D/IP/WF)
http://www.osc.state.ny.us/

Attorney General

Andrew Cuomo (D/WF)
http://andrewcuomo.com/

Jeanine Pirro (R/C/IP)
http://www.jeaninepirro.com/

U.S Senators

Hillary Rodham Clinton (D/IP/WF)
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/redirs/splash/

John Spencer (R/C)
http://www.spencerforsenate.com/

(D) = Democrat
(R) = Republican
(C) = Conservative
(IP) = Independence Party
(WF) = Working Families
(G) = Green Party