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Meet Eliot Spitzer: the most destructive politician in America.(Cover Story)

National Review

| June 14, 2004 | Ponnuru, Ramesh | COPYRIGHT 2004 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THERE'S a story Eliot Spitzer likes to tell about the Federalist Society. Spitzer had started to make a name for himself as an aggressive and activist attorney general for New York, and the conservative legal group invited him to speak. Spitzer told the group that he too was a federalist: Conservatives had cut the federal government down to size; that devolution of power, he said, had freed him to sue the tobacco companies. The conservatives, he says, were "ashen." Sometimes he adds that he was not received graciously.

Spitzer's story does not hold up in all particulars. Leonard Leo, the executive vice president of the Federalist Society, says, "He was not ...

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