Campaign Spouses Continued

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Candidates’ spouses can get almost as much media attention as the candidates themselves. On August 8, our interview with Gail Collins, New York Times columnist, and Connie Schultz, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Cleveland Plain Dealer and a political spouse herself, was interrupted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s press conference concerning the breakdown of New York City public transit. Leonard resumes this conversation and asks about the current crop of campaign spouses. You can listen to the first part of the interview here.

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