Posted on 07/23/2007 9:28:39 PM PDT by neverdem
The fallout from a damaging report by Attorney General Cuomo's office detailing the Spitzer administration's use of state police for political attack purposes is likely to spread, threatening to upend Governor Spitzer's agenda and bring down his most senior adviser.
After a three-week investigation, Mr. Cuomo's office yesterday released a 53-page report accusing Mr. Spitzer's communications director, Darren Dopp, and a top state homeland security official of ordering state police to take extraordinary measures to track the use of air and ground police escorts by the Republican Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, in an effort to catch him abusing state resources.
Mr. Spitzer, who suspended Mr. Dopp and reassigned the other official, insisted he was unaware of the plot to discredit Mr. Bruno in the press. Senate Republicans, however, signaled they would launch their own probe into the matter, raising the possibility that they would use the subpoena power of standing committees to try to uncover e-mails and investigative transcripts implicating other high-level administration staffers, including Mr. Spitzer's top adviser, Secretary Richard Baum, and the governor himself.
"What did the governor know, and when did he know it?" a Republican state senator of Brooklyn, Martin Golden, said. "There should be a further investigation into the inner circle. Somebody signed off on this. I urge the governor to get to the bottom of this."
The report does not call for any disciplinary action against Mr. Baum, but it provided passages of e-mails in May to Mr. Baum from Mr. Dopp discussing the existence of police travel records of Mr. Bruno and suggesting a "new and different way to proceed re media."
While the report did not allege a criminal wrongdoing, it was a devastating setback to a first-term governor who was elected last year on a mandate to restore integrity to...
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A Democrat restoring integrity?? Yeah, right.
This dirty bastard screwed so many people over and the retards in NY elected him anyway. You deserve the POS, NY
Politically looking out for himself, it seems Little Andrew is a chip off the old block.
Spitzer will probably be Hillary’s pick for US AG.
Yes, but I love the fact that a Cuomo is taking on Spitzer. Sort of like a fight over a customer in a w**rehouse.
Mario and the punky writer son are political hacks. Is there any hope that Andrew will break the mold and be an honest NY Democrat?
Nahhhh. Not a chance. Just pure opportunism at knocking out Spitzer as a future presidential candidate.
Stand back and enjoy the gore (no not the fat one).
Tough call. Democrats have so many corrupt attorneys who would want that job that the oddsmakers won't know where to start the handicapping.
It’s New York. Nothing will happen.
Only if Mike Nifong turns her down.
You can say/type whore. It's a perfectly acceptable word, especially when it defines the many whores who are supposedly representing those who elected or appointed them.
FMCDH(BITS)
Ping.
Oh, something might happen, and it just might involve a comfortable pair of cement boots.
ML/NJ
AG General Eliot Spitzer is being accused again of threatening to use his office to punish an opponent — this time, nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Sean Hannity.
Eric Stanger.....said Spitzer was a telephone guest on the Hannity show in 2000 and at first hung up in anger in response to comments made by the conservative-oriented host.
"A minute later, the hot line was ringing. It was Spitzer, very angry, very agitated, very upset....'Let me tell you something: I fully intend to use the capacity of my office to act on this,' " Stanger told The Post.
"I was really floored, and I said, 'Is that a threat, sir?' " ......Spitzer "quickly changed his tone," insisting, "No, no, no. It's not a threat."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550991/posts
However, Cuomo might like to run for governor in the very near future so it would be in his interest to damage Spit-up.
Don’t blame me - I voted for Faso!
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