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December 31, 2004
‘Blogger Spitzer'
The ‘Sheriff of Wall Street' Eliot Spitzer, the country's best-known attorney general, announced earlier this month to the surprise of no one that he would, in fact, run for governor of the State of New York.
The man who took an untraditional approach to his role as New York's attorney general, took a similar route in announcing his gubernatorial bid. Spitzer is now ‘Blogger Spitzer'.
Although the announcement was leaked informally to reporters just moments earlier, Spitzer made his official announcement at 11 am ET December 7 by blogging it via his campaign Web site, www.spitzer2006.com, which has been running since early October.
By announcing in an informal blog style, rather than in a speech or a statement, Spitzer broke political (and corporate) convention. In doing so, he has become more than just the Sheriff of Wall Street; Spitzer has become the Sheriff of Society.
The corporate world is now on alert. Weblogs and journals, or blogs for short, became somewhat prominent in this year's presidential election cycle after former Vermont Governor Howard Dean turned his Web site into a powerful fund-raising force. But the best is yet to come.
Like most bloggers, Spitzer invited comments to his gubernatorial announcement and soon more than two-dozen of them, pro and con, had been posted, mostly positive. That is society speaking -- and society is comprised of many networks of individuals, often with differing perspectives.
Hollywood and Madison Avenue must now be getting worried for the people who pay their bills and for their own stake in the game; because now an average looking Joe " certainly no Robert Redford or Martin Sheen politico " is going to use a new media that they are going to have difficulty controlling " the power of the many-to-many structured Entity Relation Model (ERM) used by bloggers.
And the people of our society are responding to Spitzer in huge numbers because they can believe the integrity of the product (merely his words), based on their knowledge of his past actions.
In Spitzer's words, "I want to fix what's broken. It's what I do best. I bring people together whether they like it or not and we tackle complex problems " not with band-aid solutions, but with major reform and real change. We did it in the financial industry and other sectors and we can do it in government. I'll bring new energy and resolve to the task of transforming state government and turning around the state economy." (Eliot's Blog)
All that is to come in this story of Blogger Spitzer is the White House in 2012.
Posted by Posted by Bill Cara on December 31, 2004 10:35:31 AM | Category: Blogging World
I guess the good thing about Spitzer being governor is that he would no longer be attorney-general. He *might* be well intentioned, but he has very poor execution (more than just pun intended). He belongs to the "sell-side Wall Street gang."
I wrote an article in my own blog awhile back comparing him to old-town west sheriff much as you have Bill...and in a main street gunfight there would be a lot of dead civilians.
Enjoying your new Blog...
Enso (aka DJ)
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