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Posted on 03/13/2008 2:12:19 PM PDT by chessplayer
Those of us who have been participating in the Eliot Spitzer Media Waiting Game -- halting our respitory activity in anticipation of the Jurassic Press actually ascribing Party affiliation to the recently resigned Big Apple Governor -- can finally breathe easy. The Agence-France Presse and Yahoo! have teamed up to finally do what's right.
Only they do it so VERY wrong.
Eliot Spitzer (R) holds a news conference in New York City with his wife Silda by his side
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LOL! This is classic!
LOL!
The NY Post has been calling him “The Luv Guv.”
AHEM
“Eliot Spitzer (R)”
No, the Spitzer is a DEMONCRAT!!!!
Their defense will be they meant on the right but it is a subliminal attempt to redirect bad vibes.
they just forgot the first few letters in MAYO(R).
LOL!
Maybe he switched party affiliations just before the second press conference?
This is too funny.
When it’s a dhimmirat congressman who’s in trouble, the press will refer to him as
Rep. So N So
to imply that he’s a republican.
Cute!
LOL. Too funny!
Come on. Give them the benefit fo the doubt.
Eliot Spitzer (Retired)
At this minute, it’s still there:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080312/img/ppl-us-politics-newyork-gov-1-4e48f9b2ad981.html
This person is not senile or illiterate, at least not in the usual sense. How, I wonder, could somebody be that mis-informed? I think we have a clue.
The "typo-lie" is a familiar device of leftist propaganda, an exaggerated number, a small mis-identification, an erroneous date, that will lead to a huge misconception if unchallenged but that can be dismissed as a trivial error on the rare occasions when it is challenged.
The anti-military propagandist Tom Gervasi was a master of the typo-lie. His notorious screed Arsenal of Democracy has at least one typo-lie on every page, literally. These have stood uncorrected in successive editions for 30 years. Arsenal of Democracy is the most widely used military reference among college students.
-PJ
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING!
Gubernatorial campaign
Main article: New York gubernatorial election, 2006 Spitzer was elected Governor on November 7, 2006 with 69% of the vote. He faced Republican John Faso and John Clifton of the Libertarian Party of New York among others.
On December 8, 2004, Spitzer announced his intention to seek the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York in 2006. While long rumored, Spitzer's announcement was unusually early—nearly two years before the election. Some opined that Spitzer's early announcement was motivated by a desire to learn if Senator Charles Schumer, a more senior Democrat, would run. But Schumer, largely favored in opinion polls in a hypothetical matchup against Spitzer, had announced in November that he would not run for Governor, but would, rather, accept an offer to sit on the powerful Finance Committee and head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. After Schumer's announcement, Democrat Andrew Cuomo announced his plans to run for the Attorney General's seat vacated by Spitzer.
Spitzer won early endorsements, including, on January 22, the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which has purported to act as kingmaker of Democratic nominees. The party has been heavily backed by figures from community groups, e.g., ACORN and labor unions, particularly those that once broke from the AFL-CIO to form the Change to Win Federation. In the months after the WFP endorsement, several Change to Win unions announced that they were endorsing Spitzer under their own name, e.g., UNITE HERE, the Teamsters, and the United Food and Commercial Workers.
In the latter half of 2005, Spitzer sought to further solidify support for his campaign by touring the state, seeking and giving political endorsements. These included cross-endorsements with former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer in the 2005 New York City mayoral election, 2005; Matthew Driscoll in the Syracuse, New York, Mayoral election; and State Senator Byron Brown in the Buffalo, New York, Mayoral election. The benefits to Spitzer in these deals was the valuable media attention which accompanied his stumping for those candidates, as well as gaining local endorsements to help win the party primary.
As a result of Spitzer's relative speed in bringing state Democrats to his side, he gained the respect of Democratic leaders nationwide. Such a leader, Bill Richardson, dubbed Spitzer the "future of the Democratic Party" at a fundraiser held in June 2005 for Spitzer's gubernatorial campaign.[33] A June 2006 Quinnipiac poll showed him leading Nassau county executive Thomas Suozzi 76-13%, indicating that he had all but secured the nomination.[34]
Much of the attention of watchers of New York politics then turned to the state Republican Party, especially the future of three-term governor, George Pataki. Polling throughout 2004 and into 2005 consistently showed Spitzer defeating Pataki in theoretical match-ups. Such a scenario might have proved unappealing to Pataki. In July 2006, Pataki was rumored to be making overtures toward seeking the Republican nomination for the U.S. presidency in 2008. Whether or not these rumors were true, Pataki announced on July 27, 2005 that he would not seek reelection.
The open-seat nature of the election, along with Spitzer's positive poll numbers, and the advantage Democrats have in New York State fueled the Republican leadership's discussions of the active pursuit of candidates to run against Spitzer. By June 2006, two people had announced their intent to run for the nomination: former New York Assemblyman John Faso, who was officially endorsed at the 2006 New York State Republican Party Convention and former Masschusetts Governor William Weld, who is a native New Yorker. Shortly after the convention, Weld dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination.
An additional consideration for Spitzer was the status of billionaire businessman Tom Golisano, a three-time Independence Party candidate. It was rumored that Golisano might run again, and that Republican Party insiders would seek to nominate him as a Republican, thus fusing the Republican and Independence tickets for the first time in a gubernatorial election. Golisano recently switched his party affiliation to the GOP. However, on February 1, 2006, Golisano announced that he would not run for governor.[35]
In January 2006, Spitzer selected New York State Senate minority leader David Paterson as his choice for Lieutenant Governor and running mate. In New York gubernatorial elections, the most important consideration in a gubernatorial candidate's choice of a lieutenant governor is often said to be the need to "balance the ticket", thereby widening the candidate's appeal by choosing someone from a different geographic area, ethnic background, or with a different political base. Such a practice is common in other states, as well as in Presidential elections.
After announcing his candidacy, Spitzer was endorsed by numerous New Yorkers including state Comptroller Alan Hevesi and two former New York City Mayors: David Dinkins and Ed Koch (who had endorsed President Bush in 2004). In February 2006, Spitzer got the endorsement of businessman Donald Trump, who had been courted by the Republicans to run against him.
On May 30, 2006, Spitzer and Paterson won the endorsement of the New York State Democratic party.[36] He still, however, had to face Suozzi in the Democratic primary.
On July 25, 2006, he faced Suozzi in a gubernatorial debate held at Pace University in Manhattan, discussing issues such as public authorities and Medicaid.[37]
Spitzer surprised many New Yorkers when, upon being asked about marijuana, he stated that he disagrees with medical use of marijuana since other medicines are more effective.[38]
During the week of August 24, he and Suozzi participated in a cable TV "town hall" forum at Pace University. Spitzer actually participated from Rochester, where he was visiting as part of a campaign tour across the state.
In the Democratic primary held on September 12, 2006, Spitzer handily defeated Suozzi, securing his party's nomination with 81% of the vote.
On October 5, Spitzer, addressing the Empire State Pride Agenda, declared that as governor he would work to legalize gay marriage in New York.[39]
Spitzer won a landslide victory in the election with 69% of the vote. It was the largest margin of victory in a gubernatorial race in New York history, and the second-largest for any statewide race in New York history. The only larger victory was Chuck Schumer's 71% victory in his successful reelection bid for the U.S. Senate two years earlier. Spitzer carried all but three counties in the state.
Eliot is a unisex name.
Silda is an attractive woman, but she looks like they must have given her some Thorazine before this appearance.
??? The woman on the left does not look like an Elliot.
That would make sense for the caption, but not the headline. It would also make sense if it was Spitzer and another guy in the picture to designate which is which. However in this case they specifically say "with his wife", you'd have to be pretty stupid to confuse the two.
It's a calculated (R) placement. Yes it probably means "right" but given everything else it's calculated and intentional.
Ya gotta check how they do this in France. This is from Agence France Presse.
What are you talking about? His party affiliation was in the first paragraph of the breaking story all over the country on day one. Search the FR archives. You have to find an article, from France no less, four days later to claim media bias? Your post is intentionally dishonest.
It's Eliot Spitzer (Retard)
I think it was supposed to be Man Who(R)e.
You’re up past your med time, aren’t you?
Maybe the “R” stands for “Resigned”. :-)
Does this mean we have to hold our noses and vote for him anyway?
“Hold the mayo!”
They really messed up here... they completely forgot to include the (L) to help identify Silda.
Republican New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (R) holds a Republican news conference in New York City with his Republican wife Silda by his side, on March 10. Republican Spitzer came under mounting pressure from Republicans and others to resign Tuesday, a day after the Republican crusader once known as the "Sheriff of Wall Street" was linked to a prostitution ring that was known to have been used by at least one Republican.
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