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November 16, 2005
For Immediate Release |
Contact: Albert O'Leary
212-298-9190
or Joseph Mancini
212-298-9150
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PBA ENDORSES SPITZER FOR GOVERNOR
The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New
York, the nation’s largest municipal police union representing
over 50,000 active and retired police officers, has endorsed Eliot
L. Spitzer for Governor of New York State, it was announced today
by PBA president Patrick J. Lynch.
Patrick J. Lynch said: “Eliot Spitzer is a law enforcement
professional who is smart and energetic and who embodies the qualities
that police officers value. New York City police officers worked
closely with him as an aggressive and hard working Assistant District
Attorney in Manhattan. Eliot Spitzer has carried that energy and
ability to the office of State Attorney General where he has been
a staunch advocate of issues that are important to police officers
and working people across New York State. He has fought to make
health care and prescription drugs affordable, to protect our environment
and has played a critical role in consumer affairs, civil rights,
law enforcement and public safety issues. The New York City Patrolmen’s
Benevolent Association believes that there is not now, nor will
there be a better candidate to hold the office of Governor of New
York State than Eliot Spitzer.”
The PBA is the largest municipal labor union to endorse the Spitzer
candidacy to date.
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