NY Gov "involved" with prostituion ring

You've been waiting years to post that, haven't you?

How is New York's succession set up? Do they have a Lt. Governor or Vice Governor who takes over, or will there have to be a special election to replace Spitzer?

 

As I understand it, in addition to the the Lt. Governor moving up, and everybody below him also moved up the chain. Which makes Bruno, who Spitzer had tried to put in jail, the new Lt. Governor.

Somebody told me a story about Patterson the other day and I was wondering if anybody else heard or read this. A while ago, Patterson was asked what the Lt. Governor's job is. He said it was to wake up and call the governor. If he answers, go back to bed. I love that answer.

 

Give me one good reason why the Republican is ID'd as a Republican but the two Dems are not ID'd as Dems. Just one good reason. And "they forgot" won't wash.

 

As the sentence in question states, he was enjoying great popularity despite being a Republican in a heavily Democratic state. I think that's the only reason it was even mentioned.

 

Because it's a conspiracy. It's all a conspiracy. You're right to be paranoid. The media's filled with liberal hippies who are out to destroy Republicans. You found out the truth. Damn you!

Now shut up.

 

Tony, are you really seeing a lot of us on here saying it's OK that they didn't ID him as a Democrat? Haven't quite a few of us gotten down on the different media sources for NOT IDing him as such? What more do you want?

 

He and Yawn and the rest of that crew want somebody they consider to be a liberal to post what Grimace did, but without the sarcasm. Most of them need a dose of reality. One of them just needs a muzzle.

 

I'm going to miss having a governor refer to himself as "a fucking steamroller."

 

There's a Cleveland Steamer joke in there somewhere. But because I'm not sure what it is, I won't make it.

 

How much of the $80K went to...oh, I don't feel good about that joke!

 

Anyone think Spitzer might not have been as aggressive in prosecuting powerful people if he didn't have his family money to fall back on? I'm not knocking him taking down the wrongdoers he did, I haven't heard of a lot of his prosecutions being overturned, but it does make me wonder how much pressure is put on those who do look into going after the powerful, but shy away out of career concerns.

BTW - That the NYT's figured there was something more to the prostitution ring bust last week because it was headed by the public corruption asst. US Attorney is somewhat genius. Nice work. I imagine there were several news orgs that read that release and that fact got past them.