
From a resounding election win to his first day on the job, when he said, "What is needed now more than ever is a politics that binds us together, a politics that looks to the future, a politics that asks not what is in it for me, but always what is in it for us?"
From the embarrassment of attempting to smear rival Joe Bruno and the ensuing Troopergate to a 2008 plea to fellow lawmakers to "work together for the common good, despite any political or personal differences."
And it all boiled down to this.