Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is serving the final 1,000 days of his term, gives Eliot Spitzer good marks for the governor's first 100 days in office. At a news conference at the Department of Education headquarters in Manhattan on Monday morning, Bloomberg said:
“Eliot is a very smart guy, we all want him to be a great governor. I think the budget, as I told you, treated New York as well as we could hope for. You always want more, but fundamentally there were an awful lot of parts of the budget that I agreed with and relatively few that I didn't. He's got to deal in the real world. And he's off to a good start -- I would say. But the real test is over the rest of the four-year term until he, assuming he runs for re-election, goes before the voters. And then he's going to have to show what he did, not in the first hundred days, but in the first three and three-quarter years.”
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