i heart eliot spitzer

More like him, please.

The best was nailing that unctious little worm Grasso. Bravo.

Him and Schumer are NY's nu-gods.

so, what's he running for in 2006?

done.

now what?

that said, i think he will be very good for the state, and for nyc. replacing kalikow as head of the mta would be a good start.

it'll be interesting to see how he operates as governor. he can't help being an improvement just by showing up.

My next step is not voting.

Sure, once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
Ah, but I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Spitzer clearly didn't want to knock his percentage down to 65% by opposing Ratner. My #1 issue for city & state is the developers' rape of NYC, and I have little confidence it'll be slowed.

-- hstencil (hstenc!...), November 8th, 2006 9:58 PM. (hstencil) (later)

http://brickburner.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/11/an_election_han.html

1. ...Spitzer was one of the chief architects of New York’s own version of the PATRIOT Act. ok, so if that's true (which i don't doubt btw), why just leave us hanging on that? how about some details?
2. it's nov. 13th. maybe perhaps a bit late to be kvetching?

i'd bet that at least some portion of the ag position involves lobbying the assembly and senate.

In private practice, Spitzer founded the New York branch of the Center for the Community Interest, a public interest law firm that tangled with civil libertarians on issues like anti-gang laws and AIDS testing for infants. He ran a commercial that mocked the liberal lawyers who opposed searching schoolchildren for guns.

After he was elected, he backed state financing for parochial schools and "roving" wiretaps for police. He calls the New York Civil Liberties Union's resistance to the wiretap law "somewhat ludicrous."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/441399p-371839c.html

I THINK IT WOULD'VE BEEN IMPORTANT TO BRING UP BEFORE THE ELECTION.

gah.

i mean sheesh, i probably wouldn't have voted for spitzer if i knew about that stuff, and i know lots of people that wouldn't, too. that crybaby i'm-so-helpless-against-the-powers-that-be shit really, really irks me.

But again, these issues would never have moved a huge number of Hillary Dems against him, so why be upset? He was the Anointed One and it's just realistic to accept him as such. (I don't cast these Green votes out of vestigial adolescent pique, but because I can't stomach how these candidates betray the Constitution, the truth as I understand it, etc.)

i'm not upset, i voted for him! it's just you sound like a sore loser. think pujols after game 1 of the nlcs. it ain't flattering.

So someone explain this scandal. Or whatever it is.

I don't really understand it myself... something about him spying on a fellow politician...

an overview. what it is is the fastest collapse of a reputation ever. over stupid political bullshit, too. the only bright spot for spitzer is that it's early in his term. major black eye, though.

way to go, Mr. Clean, making a gangster like Joe Bruno look oppressed.

Ned, this is called schadenfreude rearing its beautiful head on a guy whose line of bullshit ran out long ago.

So is your post called "Dandy Don Weiner humping the air"?

gimme a break. he leaned on frank bruno. BRUNO. one of the biggest operators ever to come out of the NY state house in modern history. the man whose reputation as money spigot, obstructionist, and general cog in the works is perhaps only exceed by sheldon f*cking silver. if spitzer could get some dirt on that guy, GOOD. also note the fact that the report into the investigation concludes that "no laws were broken". i'm shocked, shocked that politics is going on here.

(Joe Bruno)

but TH, perception is all, and you see how this is being spun in the media.

I dunno, do you really think this scandal has legs? It's pretty impossible for most folks to follow. It undercuts Spitzer's cred momentarily, but long-term...?

i love how no matter what happens ny state politics will always be 100% impossible to understand

Dave, if I could title my post your suggestion would be considered a strong contender.

And hilarious that we are now trotting out "no laws were broken" as the new standard. Oh wait, Al Gore invented that one back when he was shaking down the Buddists or something. It amuses me that pols have to codify ethics.

haha it would be awesome if frank bruno were in the NY state legislature. talk about a bruiser.

don that line about al gore and the buddhists is older and faker than your grandma's tits. i respect your thinking about a lot of things but then you come out with this pure cant i am just amazed. go on, read for yourself about al gore and that buddhist temple. not the pundits - what actually happened. see if you find yourself outraged.

"when you come out with this pure cant..."

i.e. putting the word "invented" right after the name "al gore" - oh, how that sequence of words speaks to something deep in heart of the modern conservative spinner! the thrilling thrum of successful slime, like an evensong, a ritual to remind us of our faith!

It's called yanking your chain, Tracer. Don't worry, I've memorized everything Bob Somberby wrote about his friend Al Gore and I know there was no controlling authority with regard to fundraising and all that mean talk about Al Gore inventing shit. Easy tiger!

I mean really, what I'd like to know is if you think that "no laws were broken" makes this whole thing political and unrelated to ethics.

wait, don, i thought this was just joeks

well people here are like "ooh he's tainted now" but christ almighty do people really expect a brand-new governor of new york state with a rep for getting things done to take on bruno and silver with absolutely no leverage??? i mean, i appreciate that politics is a bloodsport. which explains why people (like you) continue to insinuate things they know aren't even true, because they know it furthers their own agenda (or think it does, which isn't quite the same thing at all). which is why i'm not surprised, and even sort of admiring, of spitzer sockin it to bruno like that. it's about time somebody tried to get some leverage on the guy. if it's available info, why not? NB i am not suggesting that JOURNALISTS do this. journalists should cover leaks and reports with an eye to what leverage is trying to be gained and why. in the nytimes report, for instance, it would help if we got more of a flavour of the obvious tit-for-tat going on here.

I don't see what the big deal is

two of spitzer's staffers pieced together records of bruno's use of taxpayer-funded police escorts and aircraft. the acting superintendent of the state police appears to have personally fulfilled a freedom of information request himself. RESIGN SPITZER

oh also spitzer's dad loaned him a bunch of money when he was running for governor. WHERE THERE'S SMOKE THERE'S FIRE

And for the record, it's nothing like your phone number showing up in a hooker's little black book.

haha don i don't even know what you're talking about

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/congress/members/photos/228/V000127.jpg

Lots of smoke in this guy's world.

nope, still nothin

is whatever you're talking about all over cable news or something?

I present you a bastion of conservative ideals, Senator David Vitter.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/09/AR2007070902030_pf.html

yeah see I don't get it - I would assume that an elected officials use of funds, travel records, etc. is public information...?

the problem is that for a guy like spitzer to be falling back on "no laws were broken" hurts him. fair or not (and i kinda think it's fair, really), when your reputation is mr. clean-it-up, you're going to be held to a higher standard than old-time backroom fixers like bruno and silver. the appearance of using state police as part of a political vendetta is just skeezy, no matter how valid the vendetta itself may be. spitzer playing hardball with the legislature is all well and good -- and welcome, as far as i'm concerned. bbut boy you better know where the lines are.

still he can probably count it as a rookie mistake, and there's a good chance no one will remember it in a year.

gypsy OTM.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/stone-ends-work-for-senate-republicans/

whoops - http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/08/roger_stones_alibi_no_frostnix.html

well, hookers will stick to him more than being "one of the chief architects of New York’s version of the PATRIOT Act."

he is such a disaster.

Sticky hookers, eh?

What did Don know and when did he know it?

srsly

And for the record, it's nothing like your phone number showing up in a hooker's little black book.

-- Dandy Nostradonmus Weiner, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 19:23 (7 months ago) Link

ooooooooooooh

Oh Spitzpaws.

i think we should have two threads about this going at once

Do I have to defriend him on facebook now?

What will Northern State do about that lemonade spritzer line? I understand Wolf Blitzer is available.

haha oh dear.

rough month for tipsy between this and No Country's Oscars.

now all i need is some major injury in red sox spring training.

you mean like Beckett leaving his start w/out throwing a pitch? :D

:(

fallout from bruno hijinx
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/nyregion/25ethics.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Obama/Spitzer '12!

― C0L1N B3CK3TT

Bump because he's had hookers in his thread title for long enough

http://i.timeinc.net/time/personoftheyear/2002/images/poyspitzer_389x281.jpg

nbd just waiting for a hooker

watched Client 9, it's good

Him and Schumer are NY's nu-gods.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, October 22, 2004

This didn't work out so well.