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Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a Democratic candidate for governor, met with a Republican nemesis, Thomas Golisano, in what Democrats described as a Spitzer attempt to woo Mr. Golisano after a disastrous meeting between the two men last summer. Mr. Golisano, a Rochester billionaire who ran for governor in 1994, 1998, and 2002, came close to undertaking the fourth campaign this year. Mr. Golisano announced that he would instead focus on supporting reform-minded candidates. He has also met with Kenneth Langone, a billionaire businessman who has been sued by Mr. Spitzer's office and is working to defeat him in the governor's race. Amid rumors of a Golisano-Langone financial effort to derail Mr. Spitzer with television commercials or other means, a détente between Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Golisano would carry political significance.