Bruno’s Responsed To Troopergate Report
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“The report released today by the Albany County District Attorney’s Office confirms what I have been saying all along, that former Governor Eliot Spitzer lied to the people of this State about his direct knowledge and involvement in the Troopergate scandal; that he was obsessed with conducting a ‘political hit job’ to damage me personally and politically; and that the administration enlisted favored members of the news media, principally the Albany Times Union to carry out their plot.
“The report represents a turnaround from the District Attorney’s report issued last September that cleared the Governor of any wrongdoing.
“That report was done after a so-called “investigation” in which the DA did not place anyone under oath and was clearly issued as cover for then-Governor Spitzer and his administration”.
“I feel it was a serious mistake not to present this information to a grand jury and proceed with a prosecution, as there is clearly evidence of criminal conduct.
“I urge Governor Paterson to take appropriate action against those involved in the plot and cover-up, and who should not continue to represent him and the Executive Chamber.
“This scandal was a blatant abuse of government power. This time it was aimed at me. However, these abuses should present a concern to all New Yorkers. It also illustrates the importance of having checks and balances in State government and avoiding one-party rule and power.
“While we will continue to move forward with measures to address some of the legislative issues raised by this scandal, this report sheds more light on a sad and disgraceful chapter in New York State history and on a Governor who clearly had his priorities wrong and, as I said so often, lacked the temperament to govern.”
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Joe Bruno is not a saint. But he is 100 percent right on this one. Mr. Soares also needs to be replaced. All he did was carry water for Spitzer for months. He was part of the cover up too.
Don’t tell me this is Saint JOSEPH? If so, I’d like to see if he paid for that night at the Inn with his own money. And if he did, where did he get the money? Anybody see the frankincense and myrrh? It was here a minute ago. I think I saw Rabbi Silver wander through the stable. Everybody empty your togas!
Governor Patterson needs some serious credabilty right now. He should demand the resignation of all those Spitzer people involved in this matter. Period.
I wholeheartedly agree with No Koolaid. and tho Bruno is no Saint, it sure did seem that some people were writing him off as crazy when he was yelling about spitzer trying to bury him. too many people thought ole spitzer was a saint. it’s just too bad that his eviction from office is going to ensure to perjury charge. eliot spitzer belongs in jail writing to jeaning pirro and begging for stamps and porn. failing the ability to really penalize spizter, the vindication i seek will come from seeing all of his peeps expelled from albany.
There should be an investigation of Soares, the DA in Albany. Soares did everything he could to make this go away for Spitzer.
you are correct..soares should be superceded under ny
state law..when the da doesnt do his job
I am going to 9 o’clock Mass tomorrow Sunday, and I hope never to be self-righteous. I pray for forgiveness for all the slights I perform on others, whether intentional or not.
But—forgive me—I am delighted at the knife that is being stuck into Eliot Spitzer’s Draculian heart. He tried to destroy a friend of mine last year in Rockland County, only because Spitzer wanted to eviscerate the Republican Party in New York. He succeeded in taking out the chief law enforcement officer, Michael Bongiorno, in the District Attorney’s race.
This man Spitzer—for whom I voted in 1998 in his second run for Attorney General, naively thinking he was ethical—is the most supreme disappointment in American electoral history. He may match James Buchanan, the worst president in our history. (Buchanan, another Democrat, caused the Civil War.)
Never trust a “liberal”—I learned that term 30 years ago. It is a contradiction in terms. DP Moynihan, Hubert Humphrey, Jerry Brown, Paul Simon—they were true liberals. Honest intellectuals, with America’s best interests at heart. The modern day “wanna-be” liberals: Hillary, Spitzer, Schumer—are egomaniacal, corrupted slimebags, dirty people—with no honesty and little integrity, and America’s interests (and citizens) are the least important part of their continuing charade in a meglomaniacal quest for power.
Makes me wish for Jerry Brown to be in the race for president. At least he was an honest human being, with good moral character
Tim Hays
Historian
Westchester Republican Party
Uh, Tim, I hope you’re not going to the 9 o’clock at Our Lady of Sorrows. The news there might test your good patience.
Hi Ed—no, St. Matthew RC in Hastings. It was a joyous Mass this a.m.
Today’s NY Daily News and Fred Dicker in the Post both go after Soares in a big way. Michael Goodwin’s column, the one in the news section of the Daily News, also addresses it. His other column, op-ed, goes after Obama.
The News also has another article about particular “earmarks”—pork—that Paterson steered to people or organizations very close to him. It raises more questions. It is taxpayer money. Paterson’s troubles continue to mount, and so do Soares.’
Thank you “Paul Revere”—“One Party” rule is the most dangerous threat to our Democracy. Fred Dicker tells it as it is, and he has the contacts to support his great columns.
Once upon a time, The Times Union was a great newspaper. It hasn’t been such in some years, ever since columnist/managing editor Dan Lynch left it, in 2000. That the TU is cozy with local elected officials (where it once exposed them, and helped them to earn deserved prison terms) is disheartening.
Why didn’t Spitz vet Paterson more carefully in 2006? Because he knew he would cruise to victory over John Faso, the decent and honorable guy who was his opponent, after 12 years of GOP rule of the statehouse.
The egomaniacs who seek high elective office in New York nowadays are complete slimebags, with the exception of John Faso, who lost to two corrupt humans in consecutive statewide races.
We do not get the Nelson Rockefellers, or Louis Lefkowitzes, or even (pardon me) the Mario Cuomos or Stan Lundines any more. Dishonest, corrupt people are the major candidates for statewide office.
I humbly suggest this: for the Democrats, Andrew Cuomo is reviving the concept of dignity in elected officials (disclosure: I voted for Jeanine). I’m liking Cuomo, for now. We Republicans need a candidate above reproach, who can demonstrate his or her virtue to voters, or our state is going to be in trouble for some time.
I mean, Dan Rostenkowski was an “honest official” compared to the Democrats who run New York today.
We are delaying the inevitable as the trickle of unethical atcions comes out against Paterson. He was Eliot’s lt. governor. Enough said. He needs to go.
He’s so swarmy and charming.
Things to beware of.
And forgive me too as Eliot’s fall has made me smile ten times a day ever since the news broke. Random, wide faced grins. Occasional cackles.
Let’s talk abit about presidential politics.today for the
first time I heard Andrea Mitchell actually say what
I have been saying only to a much wider audience..Obama
is the weaker of the two democrats because of his connection
to the reverend wright which will continue to haunt his
campaign should he be the nominee…the statements made
by wright will hurt him badly with lunchbox democrats
those making under 40,000 with high school educations
who when they see the anti american, seditionist
rantings of this reverend will not accept the explanation
from Obama that he did not know what the reverend was
saying for 20 years..it just doesn’t wash
In addition, the states that a democrat must win to
be president..MUST WIN…fla, ohio, new jersey, pa
and cal…have substantial jewish and Italian democratic voters who are absolutely apopletic with what Wright has said both about Italians but particularly for the jewish
democrats about Jews and Israel..He embraced and
honored reverend Farakhan who called judiasm a gutter
religion..Wright said that what Israel has done to the
Palestinians is worse than what hitler did to the jews
No candidate in the history of this nation has conserted
with or befriended a person so publicly that has uttered
those kinds of words aimed at those particular constituencies…and they vote…90% of american
jews go to the polls…and in close races if they
are democrats and vote for McCain..as they did for
reagan…the republican wins
I invite you to examine the site REALPOLITICS.com
it has all the recent polling date from all the
states and national polls..forget the national
stuff ..its irrelevant but look at the differences
between McCain Obama and Mc Cain Clinton in the
swing states I have mentioned and therein lies
the huge problem for the super delegates…Picking
Obama may be the only way the democrats lose the general
He makes Jewish voters nervous about Israel and for that
reason they will take their cue from the fact that Joe
Lieberman is appended to McCain at the hip…There is
only one reason for that ..Joe is an orthodox Jew
and he will be sending a signal to all those democrats
in florida, and new jersey and california ..older voters
retirees that Obama is too risky….and it has nothing
to do with race.because under normal circumstances those
voters would be his natural constituency..but it has
everything to do with his failure to condemn a virulently
anti semitic minister who has been using jews and Israel
as a punching bag for years….many of those voters
have family that were murdered by a guy doing the same thing
in europe in the 20’s…they will be reminded over and over
again by republican commercials and by snippets of the
reverend now seen on U tube…and they will vote for
the Republican..
regarding obama-
here are some quotes directly from him that YOU should consider. And ever so sadly, it’s too late for too many who cast the wrong vote already.
This is from “Audacity of Hope”;
“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
From “Dreams”;
“The emotion between the races could never be pure,” “Even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.”
“There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white”
I could go on and on. But it’s late.
I don’t know how many people got Obama wrong, when I called him from the get go. Just like I called Spitzer, and even Sall.
his colleger feelings don’t bother me a bit as the child
of a white mother and black father he was searching for his
real identity….what bothers me is that after he goes
to harvard and princeton, after he knows exactly who is
his, after he becomes law review editor and while he is
running for the presidency of the united states his choice
of mentors/pastors is so shockingly bad
Is that all you’ve got against him, Mike? Sure seems that way, because that’s all you keep bringing up.
If you want to play by Republican rules, one of the cardinal sins of politics is the dreaded “flip-flop.” For your edification and amusement, here’s a handy list, courtesy of the Carpetbagger Report blog, of the many flip-flops of John McBush, I mean, McCain…
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Please note that the greatest majority of these flip-flops have happened after McCain declared for the 2008 race. So, he’s not only a world class flip-flopper, he’s an opportunistic hypocrite.
But none of this matters. Hilary is going to lose to Obama. Obama is going to go forward to the general and America is going to vote for McCain. I just hope he choses a good Veep because I doubt McCain’s ticker is going to hold out for much longer. Yes, the next president of the US will ultimely be McCain’s vice president.
Oh what a tangled web we weave when the liberal media does conspire to deceive.
hey Walt you certainly have the issues down but
this election will be about confidence in the president…
If obama can pass that test he may be elected…if not
McCain will be the president…
The Consultant’s law partner http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/30lawyers.html?_r=1&sq=napoli&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print
somone has to do something about the albany county
da..he was clearly not doing his job in the first
part of this investigation..and confidence in his
ability to finish it properly has been badly shaken.
He should be superseded by the governor with a special
proscutor
Yes, that’s right. Soares should be removed.
HEY WALT – WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THAT WAS A LONG STORY YOU POSTED THERE:)
Mister, we could use a man like Harry Truman or Jerry Ford again. . .
our present political conflagration is going to turn our country into Gaza, or the Balkans, if we aren’t careful.
All this hatred really began just 35 years ago, in 1973. It’s been tit-for-tat ever since; revenge by one party’s partisans against the other.
Think of the theme of the “accidental presidency”: TR, Truman, Ford.
I’m trying to not romanticize the past, but those three presidents were good for America.
Looking at this statistically, and respecting the cycles of postwar American political history, in each year where in one party there has been a “bitter” presidential primary, the other party has won. 1956, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1988, 1992, 2000. Add 2008 to that equation, I am certain.
George Santayana, where are you today?
Assailing the Alamo. Oh, you mean THAT Santayana.