Posted on 07/25/2007 12:43:22 PM PDT by pabianice
Grand jury must prove governor's role in dirty tricks plot
In the fall of 1998, Eliot Spitzer was winning the race for attorney general. I was the Daily News Editorial Page editor, and my colleagues and I had pressed Spitzer about the source of millions of dollars he was spending on the race. He told us, as he told election officials, that he had taken out personal bank loans. Days before the election, Spitzer confessed to another newspaper that his father really was the source of the money.
Soon after I got to my office that day, the phone rang. It was Spitzer, calling to explain. "Eliot," I said, "you lied to us."
His response was prompt and certain: "I had to," he said, adding his father didn't want his role known.
"I had to" is an excuse I will never forget. As Spitzer collected scalps on Wall Street and built a reputation as a crusading reformer, the memory tempered my applause. "I had to" wouldn't let go. Even as he swept to a landslide election as governor and said the right things about changing Albany, Spitzer's past flashed a yellow caution light about his character.
That light has now turned red
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
bump for later
Snort. Took 'em long enough.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
While they're at it....
An Open Letter to Eliot Spitzer- re. Appearance of Cover-up re. 9/11 (AbleDanger-Dietrich Snell)
Congressman Billybob
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