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Best of '08-Spitzer Resigns, Paterson Takes Control

By Karen Dewitt

Albany, NY – As 2008 comes to an end, we wanted to look back at some of our favorite stories that aired on WRVO.

It was business as usual in Albany, with state lawmakers in the midst of budget negotiations. But everything came to a halt on March 10, when Eliot Spitzer was implicated in a prostitution scandal and 2 days later resigned as New York's governor.

Capitol bureau correspondent Karen Dewitt filed this report as the scandal unfolded.