Will Joe Bruno Be New York's 3rd Governor This Year? [Breaking Update]

Red State ^ | March 20, 2008

[Clintonfatigued]

The New York City Department of Education confirmed yesterday that Gov. Paterson HAS intervened on behalf of Diane Dixon to get her a job that she had apparently been turned down for.

About that same time she told the New York Post she had tape recordings proving her close relationship with him.

Details available here ++++

Only one day after David Paterson and his wife gave a heart felt speech about their infidelities and how things have been patched up, we get our first serious challenge to Gov. Paterson's position.

While Elliot Spitzer's tryst's were of the illegal kind and David's are simply of the cheating kind, he may have used his office as Lt. Gov. to garner a job for his latest girl friend.

[JaneNC]

Sounds pretty fishy, eh?

Bye bye...Pat

[Bahbah]

Good grief, I don’t think there is enough popcorn in the world.

[Clintonfatigued]

If this is true, he’s done more than betray his wife (who has no grounds to complain). He will have betrayed his office and public oath.

[A CA Guy]

Justice is blind.

[Paleo Conservative]

Two weeks ago, did anyone see this coming?

[NativeNewYorker]

First Spits-her and now this? I don't deserve such happiness!

But I'll take it.

[Chode]

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please...

i've been good!!!

[dead]

Free lov for the gov!

[Clintonfatigued]

It’s pretty amazing.

[Man50D]

We get a sequel before the original has hardly been played.

[Clintonfatigued]

Indeed. Will the public turn against Paterson as quickly as they turned against Spitzer?

[Political Junkie Too]

Two weeks ago, did anyone see this coming?

Certainly not Gov. Paterson.

-PJ

[elkfersupper]

This is normal behavior and resume enhancement for Democrats.

By the time.

They could march all the way through the order of succession and wind up with........

And nobody would care as long as it's a Democrat.

[mewzilla]

Upstate so needs its own state....

[RDTF]

LMAO - Hollywood could have just let the writers starve - no need for them at all

[youturn]

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Is there a Vegas line yet?

[Theodore R.]

Those hapless New Yorkers may eventually conclude that they could just as well leave this office, once held by the likes of John Jay, vacant, for nothing matters any more in liberal America.

[OKIEDOC]

Obama and Paterson are two of a kind and remind me of Robert of Mugabe and his message of hope and change for the country of Zimbabwe where a loaf of bread now cost about a Bazillion Bucks.

These guys can not lead a country or state to prosperity holding on to failed Marxist's socialists views.

[Yossarian]

[Thrownatbirth]

Will the public turn against Paterson as quickly as they turned against Spitzer?

No. Right now they're just watching the fascinating spectacle of a public servant's compulsive need to confess every transgression in his life. Everyday's a new smarmy adventure with this guy.

[SlapHappyPappy]

Except the next in the order of succession is a Republican, which is exactly why they won’t let the new Gov. join the old Gov. on the sidelines.

[Viking2002]

Easy, big fella, down. Good boy. We'll let you off your leash shortly. :-)

[armymarinemom]

Maybe they should just find a eunuch.

[TexasNative2000]

No, this accusation would only apply if he were being nominated to the Supreme Court as a Republican.

[buccaneer81]

Certainly not Gov. Paterson.

LOL! Best line of the day!

[mojo114]

NY Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno is next in line. Spitzer hated him so much that he ordered the state troopers to follow him around to find dirt. How wonderful that would be if old Joe Bruno was brought in as Governor after the two failed Dems fail because of their bad behavior.
Joe Bruno is a Republican!!

[Enterprise]

L M A O !!!!!!!

[DennisR]

Could not happen to a nicer bunch of liberal wackos who vote in the likes of Schumer and Clinton.

But wait! Because Schumer and Clinton are the Senators, things like this should not happen in New York! Because they are Democrats! And Democrat rule means...UTOPIA!

[Enterprise]

The use of campaign funds for personal use might be the best reason so far to demand his resignation. But who knows, New York might not really care about now. Nevertheless, Republicans need to demand that he step down.

[FrdmLvr]

I like Rush's remark about Paterson's affair: but he's not seeing her anymore.

I also heard the bimbo's husband hadn't known about it until the gov brought it up. Way to go, ace. Great guy.

[Peelod]

Diane Dixon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Dixon

Diane Lynn Dixon (born September 23, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.
She competed for the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the Silver medal with her team mates Denean Howard, Valerie Brisco-Hooks and Florence Griffith Joyner.
In March of 2008, the New York Post reported that Dixon had a “close personal relationship” with New York Governor David Paterson, during which time she recorded a series of secret telephone conversations with him.[1]

[Kozak]

Justice is blind.

and based on the womans looks a good thing the guv is too.....

[Kozak]

Is this guy a “superdelegate” also?

[Palladin]

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile.

[SandRat]

Is NY trying to catch up with post war Italy in the number of goverments it can have in the shortest amount of time.

[Styria]

He should be automatically, as a Democrat governor.

[panaxanax]

Bruno is no prize either. He’s currently under a major FBI investigation for the usual graft and corruption scams, bribes, et al. Hey, it’s New York politics as usual!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/02/04/2008-02-04_albany_unions_support_joe_bruno_despite_.html

[Tired of Taxes]

I’m beginning to believe most politicians are unfaithful to their wives. There are just too many of these stories.

[appeal2]

God I hope not. Between Bruno, Pataki and Silver, they have been determined to destroy the state. Bruno and Pataki destroyed the republican party in NY. Once the pubs became big spenders just like the dims and sold out to the public employee unions, the fate of the party was sealed. Today there is absolutely no difference between dims and pubs except that the public has decided that if its going to have choice between liberal and even more liberal that they will go for the uber liberal dim party. After all, authenticity is important. I was going through the list of governors since the beginning of the State. There have been 55 of them. Prior to Rockefeller NY was an average tax state. Taxes were a non factor in deciding to locate in NY or Florida. Since the 60’s the tax burden has gone up many multiples. No business in their right mind would locate here. Arguably, Teddy Roosevelt was the greatest governor in NY history, although Al Smith was a good governor, even though he was a lib for the time. (Note lib of that era loved the country and believed in fighting for it).

Here’s a quote about TR from wikipedia, “On leaving the Army, Roosevelt re-entered New York state politics and was elected governor of New York in 1898 on the Republican ticket. He made such a concerted effort to root out corruption and “machine politics” Republican boss Thomas Collier Platt forced him on McKinley as a running mate in the 1900 election, against the wishes of McKinley’s manager Senator Mark Hanna.”

[montag813]

If Joe Bruno becomes Governor, wouldn’t the GOP lose control over the Senate?

[Betty Jane]

So who comes after Bruno in succession?

And what does the junior senator from N.Y. do? Does she resign while Patterson is still gov, guaranteeing the Dems hold the seat? Or does she hold on in case she loses the Presidential race, with a Republican governor appointing her replacement?

It will be interesting.

[arbooz]

Somehow an old saying about the audacity of a blind hooker comes to mind : you've got to hand it to her...

[LukeL]

And people said another Gerald Ford situation could never happen.

[VanShuyten]

So, who’s Joe Bruno screwing? Besides the taxpayers of New York.

[Coleus]

one never knows.

[maine-iac7]

Sleaseball behavior seems to be systemic with dimRats...it might be amusing to watch how many levels down they will need to go before they find someone with “Character” =

[CurlyDave]

NY Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno is next in line. Spitzer hated him so much that he ordered the state troopers to follow him around to find dirt.

Which alone should have been more than enough to boot Spitzer. This is a gross abuse of power. The hooker thing is chump change by comparison.