Posted on 07/29/2005 9:43:51 AM PDT by Liz
It was September 2002. (Robert Torricelli's) re- election campaign had turned into a referendum on his ethics..............
He .....pulled out his cell phone, and punched in the number of his friend Bill Clinton. He was through......Clinton tried to talk him out of it.
With that, Torricelli ended his lifelong passion for climbing the political ladder. He was 51 years old.
Torricelli remains a busy man. With two former Senate staffers he formed a consulting business, Rosemont Associates, that advises the government of Taiwan, along with a list of corporate clients.
He invests in real estate, including a handful of apartments, a strip mall and four small offices in the Trenton area. He does legal work for Barrack, Rodos and Bacine, a firm in Philadelphia.
And he is overseeing the gargantuan chromium cleanup at the Honeywell site in Jersey City, which pays him $375 per hour and absorbs about 20 percent of his time. tion.
He says he can't imagine ever running for office again, but he won't absolutely rule it out.
A more realistic goal, he says, would be to serve as a US ambassador.............
He still has $2 million in leftover campaign funds, and he wants to play a major role in a presidential campaign.
....his choice is Hillary Clinton. He plans to host a fund- raiser ......for her Senate re-election campaign, and says she can win the presidential race in 2008.
.....she has her enemies, even in the Democratic Party. But she is popular in upstate New York and can draw suburban women voters that would otherwise vote Republican. Torricelli believes she can win every state Al Gore did in 2000 and would then need only one more.
....his own experience has left him soured on American politics. "The country is plagued by a think-small mentality," he says.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Dream om Torisilly........
Why this guy is not in jail, many people would like to know.
"Why this guy is not in jail, many people would like to know."
I can think of a former congressman who's sitting in prison for the same sort of things on a much smaller scale who probably wonders the same thing. Torricelli toed the party line, Traficant fought against his party.
It is fascinating that he is intimately involved with Hillary's predidential run. He must be drooling at the millions he will steal if his pals tehe Clintons regain power.
Is he in the cement, garbage collection, and construction businesses ?
Another reason to make sure Hillary loses.
That Torisilly is backing her in order to get an ambassadorship is even more incentive.
Many people would like to see him in cement. Period.
When will justice be served?
In Torrisilly's bizarre, over the top resignation speech, he made some very strange statements about his extra close relationship with Governor McGreevey, another well-known silly boy. How ever did these two narcissistic, unstable sissies rise to such high levels in the state's power structure?
And he is overseeing the gargantuan chromium cleanup at the Honeywell site in Jersey City, which pays him $375 per hour and absorbs about 20 percent of his time.
What an effing joke.
He was forced to resign in disgrace over ethical shenanigans and blatant corruption. So, a judge decides that post-Senate Bob should be the omnbudsman over a $500 million dollar, court-ordered toxic waste site cleanup.
As omnbudsman, Bob is in charge of making sure that the contracts between New Jersey’s construction companies, hauling companies, environmental companies, waste management companies, and Bob Torricelli are all on the up and up, with no room for financial shenanigans. He’s gotta have his own personal garbage truck just to move the bags of cash from the site to his basement.
In an interesting New Jerseyish coinkydink, the judge who appointed Bob to the position, was appointed to his judgeship by Bill Clinton, on the recommendation of a certain US Senator at the time whose name was…
(Can you guess? Can ya? Huh? Bet you can…)
Bob Torricelli.
It is Waste Management, please.
Think-small mentality?
The elitist, unmitigated contempt this scumbag evinces cannot go unanswered.
Corrupt lowlife---Torislutty---is an out and out Christan-hater.
Most decent, law-abiding Americans consider this self-appointed, self-important change agent Torisilly as a corrupter of democracy---an individual who is out for himself, alone.
He's got plenty of company in the Dumbocrat party.
King George IV would be pleased.
>>>And he is overseeing the gargantuan chromium cleanup at the Honeywell site in Jersey City, which pays him $375 per hour and absorbs about 20 percent of his time. tion.
When did he secure that gig?
And he's got all his buddies in on the deal.....besides the equity positions he's got in the companies doing cleanup business for the govt.....in hidden LLC's.
And how about Torislutty doing business in Taiwan? Maybe he's helping 'em tear down their intel agencies---like he did in the US.
Scumbag.
Right after the Torricelli Shuffle when Dumbocrat Organized Criminals---McGreasy, Lautenslut, and Sen Corruptzine---got the NJ Supremes to ignore election laws--allowing Tori to quit and install the Lout.
Why is he so involved with Taiwan?
I hate how all of these oddities spider web together.
This guy, Arthur Zankel, Carnegie Hall's vice chairman and the developer of the solid financial base for this Carnegie Endowment just killed himself.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453393/posts
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=243
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By Robert Kagan, Kristol William
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Weekly Standard, July 26, 1999
Reprinted from the Weekly Standard, July 26, 1999
Taiwan's President Li Teng-hui sent the American foreign policy establishment into a nervous frenzy last week when he declared that Taiwan would henceforth negotiate with China as one state to another. China experts are working overtime on their op-eds chastising Taiwan for its provocative action. And the Clinton administration has already made known its displeasure with Li's statements, denouncing them as unhelpful and reiterating the administration's own agreement with Beijing's one-China policy. Meanwhile, Beijing went nuclear, literally. In a document charmingly entitled "Facts Speak Louder Than Words and Lies Will Collapse on Themselves," Beijing informed the world of what the Cox committee and other investigations had already revealed: that it has a neutron bomb, just perfect for dropping on a nearby island that China would like to occupy. This threat will no doubt cause even more anxiety among American China hands, who will blame President Li for increasing the danger of another crisis in the Taiwan Straits.
Everyone should calm down. By carefully stripping away the absurd fictions of the "one-China" policy, President Li is actually doing all concerned a big favor. After all, it is true that "facts speak louder than words." The fact is that Taiwan is and has been a sovereign state for decades, with its own government, its own army, its own flag, its own flourishing economy, and full possession of its territory. Since the early 1990s, moreover, Taiwan has been a democracy, and nothing could be clearer than that the Taiwanese people want to remain separate from mainland China as long as that territory is ruled by a dictatorship. Until there can be one democratic China, they insist, there must be two Chinas.
These facts are, of course, inconvenient for the Clinton administration, which has adhered slavishly to the fiction of "one China" embodied in over a quarter-century's worth of Sino-American agreements. Beginning with the Shanghai Communique of 1972, the United States declared its understanding that both sides of the China-Taiwan dispute agreed that there was but one China. At the time of the Shanghai Communique, this was true in an odd sort of way. Both the Communist government of Beijing and the authoritarian government of Chiang Kaishek's Kuomintang agreed that there was one China, and they both insisted it was theirs. The United States used this cute "one-China" formulation as a way of avoiding the issue. Anyway, the Cold War was on, and U.S. officials believed they needed China's help in containing the Soviet Union. If the price was a certain ambiguity and even some deception on the subject of Taiwan, so be it.
Blah blah blah
He probably did a lot of "favors" for Taiwan while in office ---now the scumbag's cashing in---as if profiting from public service isn't unlawful.
when will the press' love affair with Torricelli ever end?
I still would like to know why WNBC TV News did that scathing piece on him, his downfall came right after that news report.
WNBC's Jonathan Dienst and his crew did a magnificent job on the Torricelli broadcast hatchet job......a 45 min fully detailed piece that effectively put the kibosh to Torisilly.
WNBC's Jonathan Dienst >>
I watch him all the time, I think he's the best in the NYC market. He reminds me of Mary Matalin, he hardly opens his mouth when he talks.
To even suggest honor, justice, and fair play is a leap of faith that can never be realized.
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