Stone Reiterates He Leaked Spitzer Scandal To Feds
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Republican strategist Roger Stone told NY1 last night what had been reported last month: He tipped off the FBI to former Gov. Spitzer’s penchant for prostitutes.In the interview, Stone said a woman he met at an adult club in Florida told him ab
out Spitzer. Stone apparently sent a letter to the FBI in November that stated Spitzer patronized high-priced prostitutes on trips to Florida.
“She was a high-priced call girl, she worked for a service,” said Stone last night. “The service got a call to send somebody for an assignation with Eliot Spitzer, but he specified that he wanted a brunette, and this woman had just become a blonde, so the call went to someone else in the service.”
The hard-charging Stone, who started his political career as a consultant for President Nixon, was fired by state Senate Republicans last year after he allegedly made a threatening phone call to Spitzer’s father, Bernard.
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“Stone said a woman he met at an adult club in Florida told him about Spitzer.”
I don’t know about you, but if I were to go to an adult club, I don’t think the subject of politics would come up.
Just an observation.
Unless you’re a big-mouthed, wise-guy braggart kingmaker/slayer who doesn’t give a damn. Seems to fit the subject.
they weren’t talking about politics..they were talking
about or bragging about the fact that another high
profile official was using prostitutes…If stone
says he sent a letter to the FBI making that statement
it may be quite true…don’t put it past him after
what spitzer did to him
Stone is a scum bag. He has no loyalty to anyone other than himself. Regardless of what Spitzer allegedly did to him, he had no right to threaten Spitzer’s father and it is pretty sleazy to be bragging about finding out about Spitzer’s sex life while at an adult club. Why Bruno chooses to associate with him is beyond me. His results aren’t even good. He has done very little politically since Atwater passed away (in part because of Stone’s own unusual lifestyle).
It seems that right now in New York Republicans have a choice between principled conservatives that can’t get elected and moderates who stand for absolutely nothing but getting elected. I would put Bruno in the latter category.
That is why Spitzer won by so much to begin with.
Sad to say, but all too true.
some moderates stand for conservative fiscal principles
but not the social stuff…that’s why they are called
moderates..but the conservatives don’t allow them
a chance except for guys like rudy and bloomberg which
prove you can be effective and not be socially
neanderthal
Socially Neanderthal?
The Consultant sounds like an Obama elitist.
Name me one current New York Republican elected official that is both a moderate on social issues and a fiscal conservative? Bloomberg’s fiscal credentials leave a lot to be desired. His only conservative policy has been to take on the teacher’s union. Other than that, his fiscal policies don’t differ much from Koch or Dinkins.
Additionally, Bloomberg is a left-leaning independent. Former DNC Chairman, Terry McAuliffe, once listed Mr. Bloomberg among the nation’s Democratic mayors.
Bloomberg being elected as a Mayor proves that after a divided Democratic primary, that New Yorkers will elect an independent billionaire with a proven business track record. He does not prove that there are principled Republican elected officials currently amongst the New York GOP. In fact, since the GOP may turn to Bloomberg as the Consultant predicts, it demonstrates that there are few moderate stars within the New York GOP.
I would agree with the previous the commentator that we should not resort to hostile labels such as “Socially Neanderthal” for anyone that disagrees with our social platform. I happen to be pro-choice but being pro-life is a perfectfully respectable viewpoint and one that many intelligent Americans hold.
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I hardly believe high priced call girl operations give out the name of the john to the call girl, who in this case did not ever get to “meet” spitzer because she had the und esired hair color. I think dirty trickster Stone knew this information before November and may have been the source for the government inquiry into Spitzer’s bank record. Hopefully, the full story will come out in the case. Certainly Stone would have told Bruno all about Spitzer’s proclivities since he was being paid $20,000 per month to advise him the summer before. The call to Spitzer’s father enabled Bruno to drop Stone, hence “no association” between the Spitzer scandal and Bruno.
you need to be part of the process to understand the
counterproductivity that the conservative party
has had on making sure that republicans can’t win…
as far as I am concerned the abortion discussion does
not belong in the discussion on how to manage government
and that is the main difference between moderate republicans
and their conservative counterparts..it is also the
reason that republicans are getting slaughtered on new
registrations
Go read again “Parliament of Whores” by the great P. J. O’Rourke.
It sometimes paradoxically takes gasoline to extinguish a fire, and Roger Stone may have done so by his alleged exposé of former Governor Spitzer, who damaged a lot of people (some of them good) in his nine and a half years in elective office. It is truly saddening. But, this is what our state and local governments have been reduced to: a whole lot of scoundrels who want to steal from us, or cover up their guilty pleasures.
Spitzer’s corrupt “deal” last November to unseat the most honorable District Attorney in New York, Michael Bongiorno of Rockland County, remains his most dishonorable mark, a stain that will last forever.
Former Gov. Spitzer and his neurosurgeon brother are reminiscent of the characters in “True Confessions.” And I voted for Spitzer in 1998. Tear my shirt.
By the way: Has Bill Ryan pissed off Roger Stone lately? ;>
As a self-professed outsider to the innerworking of NY GOP politics I am hoping the Consultant could be more specific on how the conservative party is ruining it for the GOP.
They supported Pataki, Lazio, and Giuliani (when he ran for Senate). Even when Golisano challenged Pataki from the right, the conservative party ran television ads supporting Pataki and telling voters to vote for him on the conservative line and not to waste a vote on Golisano.
After Pataki’s term was up, the conservative party tried to flex its muscle and told party big-wigs that Pirro was unacceptable for Senator and that Weld was unacceptable for Governor. They also failed to support Schumer’s GOP opponent in 2004. However, Pirro could not even beat Andrew Cuomo with the conservative party’s backing for AG, Weld was polling way behind Spitzer, and I cannot even remember the GOP candidate who ran against Schumer.
These races would have probably been closer with a more socially moderate candidate, it does not appear that the GOP would have won. As for voter registration becoming increasingly more lopsided in New York, I have no idea if that is related to abortion or a plethora of issues.
I am skeptical. I think while NY is a liberal state, Pataki was given the opportunity to govern and by the end of his term NYers were just not happy with the results and took it out on the GOP. This, combined with the drop in population in upstate New York and the influx of new immigrants has essentially made New York into a strong blue state.
But I could be wrong. Thus it would be helpful if someone could provide examples of where the conservative party cost the GOP an election in New York.
I hope Ian stays a part of these discussion boards. His insights, assumption-challenging as they are, add to our mutual disgust of the corrupton in New York state politics many of us share on these boards.
The Conservative Party hasn’t yet cost a Republican candidate a win in New York, to my knowledge.
In 1970, Jim Buckley won election here as I campaigned for Ronald Reagan in California as a high school student.
The New York Conservative Party has righteousness. Even though it endorsed Pataki, who effectively destroyed the Republican Party in our state.
A big “right on” to Tim Hays and Ian.
Candidates like John Spencer vs. Clinton were ridiculous, but a moderate Republican wouldn’t have won either. So they threw Spencer to the wolves.
I appreciate the kind sentiment. I am usually pretty busy at work and only post when I have down time.