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NYC: Anti-establishment mayoral candidate assesses Spitzer

Tuesday July 9, 2013 5:30 PM By Dan Janison

"Political establishment" is one of those subjectively defined terms that gets tossed around by Eliot Spitzer when he says what he's running against.

Perhaps nobody this season is more of a genuine political maverick than low-polling mayoral candidate Sal Albanese, who pointedly spurns lobbyist and developer money. He often cites the existence of a cozy “political class.”

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