Another way Rocky was unique
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- December
- 7
  There are lots of ways for politicians to get in trouble, but former New York Governor and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller found a unique one, a biographer said today.
 Speaking to a group of former Rockefeller administration officials marking the 25th annivresary of the establishment of the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, Joseph Persico recalled that when Rockefeller was nominated to be vice president, some suspicious members of Congress wanted to know who all the people were that Rockefeller had dispensed money to during his time as governor (1959-1973).
  Rockefeller was famous for using his own money to hire people he thought could be useful, and also using some of his private wealth for other public purposes.
  ”Lots of politicians get in trouble for being on the take,’’ Persico said. “Rockefeller was the only one I’ve ever known who got in trouble for being on the ‘give.’‘’
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I was proud to have served the governor as assistant
director for youth in his 1970 gubenatorial campaign
Traveling around the state on his private aircraft
and learning how a real campaing should be conducted
was a great experience…Nelson Rockefeller was a great
governor and was the kind of republican
governor that new york deserves…
Rockefeller’s liberalism started the state Republican party’s run into the ground. His legacy is RINO’s like Rudy Giuliani, Mike Bloomberg, and Lincoln Chafee, who have no chance of broad-support on the national stage by Republicans outside of the northeast.
the last poster is an obvious right winger…the era
of conservative vs liberal is over…the new era of
centrist politics has begun..your foolish comments
indicate you can’t even read the polls..giuliani is
leading among all republicans in every part of the nation
so clearly he does have broad support..but can he get
nominated by the more conservative delegates who attend
the convention..maybe not..but whomever the republicans
nominate for president, it is the end of the evangelical
christian right calling the shots and the beginning
of true conservative candidates emerging like eisenhower
nixon ford and bush 41…the neocons, and the
Iraq disaster they pursuaded the president to pursue are out
and the next election will be determined by independents
and moderates in both parties.and you can take that
bank
to the bank