Spitzer Pays $140
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- December
- 26
That’s the cost Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to pay back for the one hour on Dec. 6 that he held a private fundraiser in Buffalo as part of a state trip.
Spitzer visited Buffalo on Dec. 5 and 6, which was mainly for state business. He also held fundraisers in Buffalo and Rochester.
But in an August decision by the now-defunct Ethics Commission, use of state aircraft can only be for a public purpose. Officials must pay back any cost of using state resources that is deemed political.
The Public Integrity Commission ruled in this case that since the governor ended his public business on the evening of Dec. 5, he didn’t need to pay back anything for the trip. He did not use state aircraft on the second day of the trip.
Still, Spitzer decided to pay back $140—the cost of one hour out of 22 that he was fundraising on Dec. 6. That’s equal to 1/22 of the $3,100 cost of a charter flight from Buffalo to Albany.
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on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 at 5:37 pm by Joseph Spector.
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“Public Integrity Commission?” It is to laugh!
This governor is on a power trip. He does not help the taxpayer’s burden and is obsessed with his own POWER. God help the state of New York and its people.
This guy is obviously so personally cheap that he couldn’t bring himself to write a reasonable check just to make it look good. And, as with everything else, none of the measly $140 comes out of his pocket anyway. 1/22nd my abacus!