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Eric Schneiderman’s Inevitable Fall (open secret to Dems)
City Journal ^ | 5/8/2018 | Seth Barron

Posted on 05/08/2018 6:40:10 PM PDT by RightGeek

The New York attorney general’s dark-side personal life was an open secret in Democratic Party circles.

New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman has resigned, just hours after it was reported that he had been accused of violent assaults on women he had dated. These allegations, which include threats that Schneiderman made to stalk and kill the women if they told on him, came as a shock—except to anyone who has followed his career in politics. Schneiderman’s louche ethics have been well known. You didn’t need an “in” at Albany watering holes; just reading the newspapers would have told you plenty.

In 2010, when Schneiderman first ran for statewide office, he was involved in a hit-and-run accident. Then a state senator, he claimed to have been a passenger in his own car when his 22-year-old staffer Rachel Kagan—niece of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan—smashed into a parked car and drove away, after causing $3,000 worth of damage. A passerby witnessed the crash and wrote down Schneiderman’s license plate. Schneiderman later told the owner of the parked car that he “disciplined the staffer,” and offered to pay for the damage, though his office insisted that it was “outrageous” to call the incident a hit-and-run.

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But Schneiderman was such an exemplar of a progressive-activist hero—suing Exxon, working in concert with Robert Mueller to obtain pardon-proof convictions against Trump associates, speaking at the Women’s March—that people who probably knew better looked away from evidence of his wrongdoing.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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Another "progressive" hero.
1 posted on 05/08/2018 6:40:10 PM PDT by RightGeek
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The Leftys are SUCH HYPOCRITES!


2 posted on 05/08/2018 6:40:56 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: RightGeek

They wasted no time throwing him under the bus.


3 posted on 05/08/2018 6:41:28 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: RightGeek

Many of the things I’ve read suggest his core problem may be alcoholism.
In this one, what are the chances a female junior staffer was driving his car?


4 posted on 05/08/2018 6:47:43 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: RightGeek

I wonder how many more open secrets are out there?


5 posted on 05/08/2018 6:49:29 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: RightGeek
The New York attorney general’s dark-side personal life was an open secret in Democratic Party circles.

Trump on Eric Schneiderman in 2013 tweet: ‘Wait and see, worse than Spitzer or Weiner’.


6 posted on 05/08/2018 6:52:33 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: Blue House Sue

The Stormy Daniels lies were set up to hurt Trump with his wife, women voters, and evangelicals. I believe he did NOT soil himself with that slut, as he is a germaphobe about doorknobs etc.

Funny thing that now a DEM is in the headlines for his disgusting violent sexual crimes.

Embarrassing that he patted himself on the back for being pious and encouraging to the feminist liars earlier!

Goes along with my theory that some Dem young men are bs artists about how women are just as good as men and feminist set asides and promotions over better qualified men are just fine with them. They were lying.

Women said all along: Men are only after one thing. You can’t trust a man. Men are all two timers. etc.


7 posted on 05/08/2018 6:54:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: RightGeek

I wonder if he was involved in a coven of Pedophiles, Hebephiles or Ephebophiles? That may explain why this didn’t come up sooner.


8 posted on 05/08/2018 6:58:15 PM PDT by Fhios (Mr. Magoo or Rip Van Sessions?)
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To: originalbuckeye

Hypocrites, indeed. If it was well known, why was it not well reported? If the ‘Rats didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.


9 posted on 05/08/2018 6:58:30 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: RightGeek

The media says "no comment!".

10 posted on 05/08/2018 7:00:55 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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In 1972 just out of high school Schneiderman got a job working at an abortion clinic in D.C. He’s soulless and vile.

https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a46727/eric-schneiderman-abortion-clinic-reproductive-rights/


11 posted on 05/08/2018 7:05:08 PM PDT by Atlantan
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Eric, you had me at “brown slave.”


12 posted on 05/08/2018 7:06:11 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Atlantan
As long as the sacred liberal God Moloch is honored with baby sacrifice anything goes with ones desire of perversion. Just don't get caught and keep it on the down low.

Gillibrand is one of the dimmest bulbs in the Senate and Chucks puppet.

13 posted on 05/08/2018 7:33:23 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: RightGeek

It’s outrageous to call a hit and run a hit and run?

How can even a liberal s-hole rationalize that?


14 posted on 05/08/2018 8:11:06 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: RightGeek

They new it all along including Cuomo. That is why it only took 3 hours to can his butt. Also Cuomo saw him as a rising star and wanted to take him out. Cuomo wants to run for President.


15 posted on 05/08/2018 8:13:35 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: frank ballenger

What headlines? This is a lone story in a small publication. It’s to give the media cover for not reporting it.


16 posted on 05/08/2018 8:28:38 PM PDT by Luke21
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17 posted on 05/08/2018 8:48:06 PM PDT by Enchante ("Don't believe every bit of crap you read on the internet." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1783 --)
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To: mrsmith
Looks like Chuckie needs a retread on his plug job.
18 posted on 05/08/2018 9:14:47 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: RightGeek

I wonder what his parents think of his behaviour?

no shame?


19 posted on 05/09/2018 12:18:36 AM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: RightGeek

SCUMBAG CRIMINALS poisoning the republic ALERT!


20 posted on 05/09/2018 1:46:01 AM PDT by PGalt
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