Spitzer Denies “Red Hot Poker” Comment
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- July
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In his testimony to the state Commission on Public Integrity released today, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer denies that he used vulgar, inflammatory comments about former Republican Senate Leader Joseph Bruno.
Spitzer’s former communications director testified that when he asked Spitzer whether to release records to the Albany Times Union on Bruno’s use of state aircraft, Spitzer responded:
“He said f—- him, he‘s a piece of s—-, shove it up his a—with a red hot poker.”
The quote has been fodder for months since it was first released in Albany County District Attorney David Soares’ report earlier this year. And Dopp said it gives a clear directive from Spitzer to release the records.
But Spitzer told the Public Integrity Commission he never said that:
Did that happen?
THE WITNESS: “To the best of my recollection, it did not. Just so it’s clear, I, in my private conversations, do not always use the Queen’s English. And I make no bones about that.
In my public commentary, I think you will see, if you do a complete search of the entirety of my public comments as Governor, you would not see me say anything critical, vulgar, of Bruno.
In my private conversations, occasionally I was, to use your word, passionate. And that is my nature, and the nature of politics. I do not in this conversation recall that, because this was not an issue about which I was passionate then, or now, or at any point in time. There were other issues about which I was, but this was not one of them.”
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For sale, Brooklyn Bridge. Can be melted and reforged into two million red-hot pokers.
“Passionate” about covers it. Depends on the meaning of “is.” I still think he was correct about Bruno. Problem is, he could have called out almost ALL the legislators of both parties for similar offenses, didn’t, and he wasn’t right on much else.
Nodden A. Wink nails it. So to speak…
Just received this note:
“Eliot Spitzer is a lousy tipper and I wouldn’t let him near me with a red hot poker. A cool one…maybe.”
Kristen
Look at the facts.He sent his police, as well as detectives on a wild goose chase to slander Bruno.And you do not think he was bad mouthing him.Get Real, and come back to the real world, where fairies, and elves do not exist.
He is not Governor any more.Nuff said.
PS. He is a bad tipper.
Though he operated illegally, he was correct about Bruno. Problem is that he would have been correct about a ton of them up there in Albany, but protected his own Party-crooks from scrutiny.
What an ugly little man he truly was. I’ll bet his johnson is no longer than three inches. That’s why he needed the hookers.
Cruel irony: if he’d stayed attorney general, he might have gone down (no pun intended) as one of the greatest in New York’s history.
Somewhere, a talented political writer is finishing the novel, “Spitzer Agonistes.”
E – L – I – O – T, E – L – I – O
T, so how is ‘living’ at home again with the parents??? NUdid you ever get any from the maids while your parents were in the other wing of the condo on FIFTH AVENUE??? Such language E – L – I – O – T your mouth should have been washed out with soap. You call wanting to shove a -cking poker up somebody’s ass – passionate??? So that’s what you were into with those PROS-TI-TUTEES!!! NO WONDER YOUR WIFE DOESN’T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU. AND that dope ANDY CUOMO ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW YORK – never ‘found’ anything ‘wrong/criminal’ with any of DEMBHOLE E – L – I – O – T’s rantings/actions like getting the NEW YORK STATE TROOPERS & his AIDES to spy/investigate JOEY BRUNO???!!!