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Eliot Spitzer, Scott Stringer meet in first New York City comptroller debate
Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Eliot Spitzer and his Democratic opponent Scott Stringer engaged in a sharply personal debate for New York City comptroller at our WABC-TV studios on Friday.
The scandal-scarred former New York governor and Stringer took off the gloves for the first debate in a very tight race.
"This is about my record as an independent voice for the public," Spitzer said when pressed by Dave Evans about why he was running for citywide office after serving as New York attorney general and governor.
Stringer fired back that "you don't get promoted to another job" after failing at the last one. Spitzer resigned as governor amid a 2008 prostitution scandal.
Read more at http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=9200913
