Bruno: Spitzer Was “Demented”
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Former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, the focus of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s political obsession, said Spitzer “was demented. He was unbalanced, he wasn’t capable of governing, he wasn’t CEO material, he was dictatorial.”
Then Bruno, speaking on Fred Dicker’s radio show this morning, offered this fine line, “He was a steamroller in his own mind.”
Records released Thursday by the state Commission on Public Integrity showed how Spitzer, according to aides, was on a mission to tarnish Bruno, his Republican foe.
Bruno, who retired from office last week, said he and Spitzer got along when Spitzer was attorney general and that Spitzer would call him during his 2006 run for governor to talk about how they were going to work together.
“All of a sudden he turned on me,” Bruno recalled, recounting how Spitzer became obsessed with Democrats taking over the Senate.
“It is tragic that the former governor, Eliot Spitzer, sought to use his vast powers as CEO, the vast powers of the State Police to intimidate and to really ruin a political rival,” Bruno said. “What does that say about the 19 million here who might want to differ with someone in higher office?”
Bruno also took shots at his hometown newspapers, the Albany Times-Union, which used documents obtained through Spitzer aides to publish a July 2007 that Bruno was using state aircraft for political purposes, saying what the paper did was a “sin.”
And he also questioned the Public Integrity Commission, which did not charge Spitzer, saying “I cannot for the life of me understand how the chief executive, the governor could not be held accountable for staff people, for people who work for him, people who are appointed by him.”
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there seems to be listen question that elliot has some
issues…to patronize a prostitution ring while you
are engaged in proscuting those kinds of acts is self
destructive at the very least..and would seem to
indicate a deep psycholigcal problem..hopefully he
is getting professional help
The most telling part of this article is where Bruno says he got along fine with Spitzer while Eliot was Attorney General. When the Spitzer was bulldozing, maligning, threatening, and railroading those other than Bruno, himself, everything was hunky-dory.
Bruno in his own way is as bad as Spitzer. Both are big hypocrites, too. The are standard pols in that regard.
Is Spitzer demented? Only his hookers know for sure. When he says, “Let me go into the kitchen and whip up something,” what does he really mean?
I hope no one here can truly answer that question. But the odds are someone will try to be creative.
Is it Reddi Whip, or “Ready? WHIP!”
I wouldn’t touch that line with a red- hot poker.
But let’s bring the whole Trooper gate thing back to its genesis:
What exactly WAS Bruno doing on these trips? Was he using state assets for personal +/or political purposes?
Have those questions ever been answered to the full extent?
Cuomo as I recall, decided him innocent. Problem is, and it applies to all of them, they have a system in place that effectively says that so long as they have any minimal visitation that might be construed as State business, (talking to the Mayor or any other various pols), the whole trip is valid even though the bulk of the time was taken up by personal business or pleasure. It’s a major loophole they engineered for themselves, and it’s virtually impossible to police.
It takes a narcissist to run for office, and there’s a fine line between narcissism and paranoia. What do we expect? We should anticipate that change over, and not be surprised. There should be a ‘gauge’ in place, like those red pop-up turkey roasting timers, that tells us ‘this pol is done’, so we can pull them out of office, and replace them with the next idiot. It’s just a matter of time in most cases.
I think you’ll find an explication of our immediate past governor somewhere in DSM V.
A tiny johnson, ugly looks, rich parents, arrogance beyond belief. A spoiled little puke of a person. Half a man. His children should change their names. Not a good guy.
Then: go get everybody who supported him, in 2006. You’ll find similar characteristics about them (small endowments, most prominent). Corrupt, horrible Democrats. The inneffectual, impotent folks who live among us. The Democrats today in Westchester are very much like the mad zombies in the horror flick “28 Weeks.”
Send the former governor away, now. Route 81, in Pennsylvania. Two plush penitentiaries await him there.
Re Tim Hays
Are you a practicing psychologist or just someone with limited knowledge? As for his physical attributes, I have to ask how you know???? Hmmmm…. Anyway most of the narcissistic tendencies apply to all politicians and anyone who thinks that they don’t apply to Joe Bruno or George Pataki is seriously in denial. Perhaps people should revisit the video of Joe Bruno screaming at the Times Union reporter who asked him a question at a press conference? Not pretty. Finally, it should be pointed out that in politics as in life you will find good, bad and ugly and it is pretty much across the spectrum!