17. Assemb. Tom DiNapoli

He is one of the good ones. He has tremendous influence and respect on both sides of the aisle, and has proven to be one of the truest and most reliable elected officials Albany has seen. So why, then, did he get passed over as Eliot Spitzer’s choice for lieutenant governor? One could argue that someone on the Power List would not be overlooked in such a way, but we submit that Spitzer may not want a fellow Democrat with such bipartisan support up there making him look bad. Sometimes the mark of a truly powerful person is the ability to not flaunt that power. DiNapoli is a great example.