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Weld Challenges Spitzer To Take a Stand on Transit Strike
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| Last Edited | Patrick Dec 21, 2005 07:36pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, December 22, 2005 01:35:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A top Republican contender for governor in 2006, William Weld, challenged Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the Democratic front-runner, to take a stand in the transit strike.
Firing one of the first salvos in the early stages of the gubernatorial race, Mr. Weld said that if he were governor, he would deal more harshly with the city's transit union, which brought public transportation to a halt yesterday with its first strike in a quarter century.
A governor of Massachusetts in the 1990s and a Manhattan resident, the lanky Yankee said he would fire union leaders and questioned whether Mr. Spitzer as governor would mete out such a stiff punishment.
"If he were governor, I don't think he would be as aggressive as I would be," Mr. Weld told The New York Sun. "Mr. Spitzer should be asked whether if he were governor, would he fire the members of the executive board and any leaders publicly advocating a strike. |
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