In a stunning political collapse, New York State Democratic candidate for governor, State Comptroller Carl McCall, has withdrawn from the race. He sited recent revelations of letters to companies to which he wrote on government stationery, recommending relatives for jobs with the companies while pointing out the extent of state pension fund shareholdings in those companies. An emergency session of the New York State Democratic Committee promptly nominated the late governor Alfred E. Smith as its candidate, assuring election officials that scientists at the Cornell Medical School had successfully cloned Smith from DNA extracted from his remains, which were exhumed … Continue reading McCall Withdraws