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Author and former reporter Buzz Bissinger, who covered Rendell as D.A. — then practically lived with him when Rendell became mayor in 1993 — wrote in his book “A Prayer for the City,” that Rendell was more conciliatory when he was in charge of the whole city.
“I think one of the reasons Ed was successful was that he learned not to act like a prosecutor,” Bissinger said.
Eliot Spitzer, a former Manhattan D.A., was twice elected attorney general in New York before sweeping into the governor’s office in 2006 as a corruption-buster. He was known for taking on Wall Street’s high salaries and promising campaign-finance reform in a state where the Legislature is often described as “dysfunctional.” A Democrat, he lasted a little more than a year on the job before a prostitution scandal brought him down in 2008.