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For a week now, the story of the state’s comptroller, H. Carl McCall, the Democratic candidate for governor, making use of official letterhead to seek jobs for friends and family has made waves in the New York press. While it is too early to tell if the story, broken by the New York Post last Friday, will significantly hurt Mr. McCall’s chances for the governorship, we are beginning to think the entire hubbub has been much sound and fury, signifying little. Contacted by our William F. Hammond Jr., as we report at page one of today’s New York Sun, the state’s highest ranking Republican legislator declined to criticize Mr. McCall’s actions. When the Republican majority leader of the state’s senate, Joseph Bruno, is unwilling to so much as graze the opposition party’s gubernatorial candidate, it is worth considering why.
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