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Has Cuomo Risen, Or Has Everyone Else Fallen?
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Ben Muessig
Published Mar 8, 2010
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According to Daily News sports columnist and political writer Mike Lupica, Attorney General and probable gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo hasn't become the state's top Democrat because of his hard work, but because he's "the last man standing." Since 2006, former Comptroller Alan Hevesi resigned after pleading guilty to fraud, Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned after being outed in a prostitution scandal, and Gov. David Paterson has become embroiled in a ballooning ethics investigation. That leaves Cuomo at the top of the pile, which could turn out being enough to get him into higher office. "[N]obody is looking for white knights. Sometimes just being in the room 10 minutes longer than anybody else is enough."
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