and the RATS, take another one in the..................HA ha!!!
Posted on 03/22/2008 6:18:54 AM PDT by rellimpank
Ten days have passed since Governor Spitzer's resignation, and events seem to be running even further ahead than expected.
When David Paterson was sworn in as the 55th governor of New York State, he received an enthusiastic reception from a joint session of the legislature. His speech was considered a success, demonstrating awareness of the state's acute financial crisis but not describing specific reductions.
What we did not know was that a few hours later, the new governor and his wife would hold a press conference dealing with mutual marital infidelity for two years at the turn of the century. The pair answered questions from the press and said they had come to a difficult period in their marriage, stayed together for the sake of the children, and are now in love again.
Even before that, on the day Mr. Spitzer resigned and Mr. Paterson held an impromptu press conference, the new governor was asked by New York Sun reporter Jacob Gershman whether he had ever used the services of a prostitute. Mr. Paterson waited a moment and then replied, "Only the lobbyists." This witty rejoinder to a possibly impertinent question enhanced his reputation as a regular fellow.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Julie Annie seems to be looking for a new gig at the moment. Maybe they can get the "Nations Mayor" to once again come to their rescue. Bernie Kerick needs a job, too, I think!
If the current Assembly Speaker were to succeed to the Governor’s job and then become similarly compromised, it would lend the term “Hi-Ho Silver” a whole ‘nuther meaning...
Funny. Jeb Bush comes to mind as well.
Is the Democratic party overrun with corruption and lust for power? Is there no one in the Democratic Part with even a shred of honor?
The answer to both questions is no. The real question is, are the GOP politicians significantly better?
Mr. Stern thinks Mr. Silver should be governor. And who’s to say Mr. Silver isn’t a crook, too?
Almost.
Now that Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman are gone, probably not.
If Patterson had to step down, I think the 'RATS would do everything they could to bring down Bruno. Wouldn't there have to be a special election to fill Bruno's old job as Senator. If a DemocRAT filled that seat, wouldn't the majority in the senate switch over to the DemocRATS? If that happened, might the DemocRATS want to get rid of Bruno and seat their own Majority Leader?
Bruno would have already been sworn in as governor...I would think it would take more than majority vote to remove him from office.
today it’s probably
abnormal
not to have had intermarital sex.
Spitzer Successor Boasts He Never Had to Pay Any of His Own Money for Sex
New York’s Governor David Paterson (D) boasted that unlike his predecessor, the disgraced former Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer, he’s never paid high or low priced prostitutes for sex.
“Eliot doesn’t have mojo,” Paterson asserted. “When you’ve got mojo like I have the babes beg for it.”
Mojo, however, may not have been Paterson’s only asset in wooing the babes. It appears that campaign cash and appointments to state jobs may have played a role in greasing the skids for his liaisons.
At least two state employees have been alleged to have had illicit trysts with Paterson “during the rocky years of his marriage.” While there is no evidence of direct cash payments to any of the women, expenses incurred for hotels, meals, and “incidentals” were billed to his campaign as “constituent services.”
Paterson explained that he didn’t feel it was right for constituents to service him at their expense. “I am a gentleman,” Paterson said. “No gentleman makes a lady pay, especially if she is a constituent.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
-—yor columns are great, John-—but you come almost too close to reality -—
Thanks Liz.
Paterson’s Inn Trouble (billed taxpayers for 13 hotel stays 20 min from home)
NY Post | March 24, 2008 | Kenneth Lovett, Post Correspondent
Posted on 03/24/2008 9:07:13 AM EDT by Liz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990592/posts
Paterson Tells His Not-so-wise Man:
Thanks For Nothing (gov’s motel trysts spark more scrutiny)
NY Post | March 23, 2008 | Fred Dicker,
additional reporting by David Seifman, Georgett Roberts
Posted on 03/23/2008 11:10:41 AM EDT by Liz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990256/posts
The Albany Wall of Silence (Backstory: Paterson fired aide assaulted by state Senator)
NY Post | February 25, 2005 | Elizabeth Crothers
Posted on 03/24/2008 3:29:52 PM EDT by Liz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990812/posts
Will Joe Bruno Be New York’s 3rd Governor This Year?
[Breaking Update]
Red State | March 20, 2008
Posted on 03/20/2008 10:42:40 PM EDT by Clintonfatigued
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989193/posts
March 23, 2008 -- Add hopeless romantic to Gov. Paterson's fast-growing résumé. The new governor, who has admitted using campaign dollars to pay for suits, furniture and possibly hotel stays with an ex-lover, has spent nearly $5,000 of his election war chest on flowers in recent years.
Patterson's blooming flower budget includes at least 100 orders to 1-800-FLOWERS since August 2001, according to state campaign finance records. Paterson's staff could not produce documents to explain the purchases.
Such purchases came under sudden scrutiny since last Tuesday, when Paterson copped to carrying on extramarital affairs with several women in years past and said he might have funded at least one tryst with his campaign credit card. The disclosures came on his first full day as governor after Eliot Spitzer resigned.
On Friday, Paterson agreed to reimburse his campaign $252.17 for two nights in the Quality Inn on West 94th Street after his staff failed to find records of campaign aides staying there. Paterson also disclosed that he reimbursed his campaign for $2,138 in clothing and furniture.
The Jan. 20, 2003, flower bills suggested former state Sen. Ada Smith received one order of flowers. Patrice Lamelle, an employee with the Department of State, got the other.
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Ousted NY Assemblyman and corrupt Dem party boss Clarence Norman Norman was tried, convicted, and received successive jail-terms for similar campaign transgressions Paterson admits to. Norman used campaign funds for pricey clothes and shoes.....and more.
DID PATERSON DO THIS? (1) Norman is accused of filing vouchers for travel expenses with the Assembly even though the Kings County Democratic Party had already footed the bill. (2) Norman was sentenced last month to 2-6 years in prison for not reporting thousands of dollars in in-kind political contributions and pocketing a $5,000 check intended for his re-election committee.
NORMAN DUE THIRD TRIAL NY POST
By ZACH HABERMAN Feb 15, 2006 The state’s highest court says ousted Assemblyman Clarence Norman will have to face trial — again. The Court of Appeals said yesterday they would not listen to arguments by Norman’s legal team, who had hoped to get it to toss out charges that he cheated on his Assembly-paid travel expenses.
The dethroned Brooklyn Democratic Party boss, convicted twice last year of skirting campaign-finance rules, will now face his third criminal trial in less than seven months. Norman is accused of filing vouchers for travel expenses with the Assembly even though the Kings County Democratic Party had already footed the bill. He allegedly pulled off the penny-pinching scheme at least 76 times for a total of $5,585.“We are prepared to go to trial on March 6,” said Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for the Brooklyn DA’s Office. A lawyer for Norman did not return a call for comment.
Norman was sentenced last month to two to six years in prison for not reporting thousands of dollars in in-kind political contributions and pocketing a $5,000 check intended for his re-election committee. Norman also faces a fourth indictment for strong-arming judicial candidates into using specific people to print their campaign literature. He is currently free on $110,000 bail. zach.haberman@nypost.com http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/63611.htm
COULD BE A LOT OF THIS GOING AROUND IN NY POLITICS. RIGHT GOV PATERSON?
TOO BUSY’ POL: I FORGOT ABOUT $7,000
September 22, 2005 NY POST By JIM HINCH
Indicted (and later convicted) Brooklyn Dem boss Clarence Norman remembered his $13.75 bill for chicken wings, but somehow forgot to tell his campaign treasurer about more than $7,000 in allegedly illegal campaign contributions. That’s according to Norman’s testimony in his corruption trial. Prosecutors showed that in 2000, Norman billed his campaign account for $2.17 worth of toilet paper, $13.75 for the chicken and $42 for envelopes at Staples. But when it came to telling his campaign treasurer, Carmen Martinez, about thousands in printing bills he got an auto lobbyist to cover, Norman was suddenly “too busy.” Norman admitted that if he had told Martinez, she would have reported the bills — which exceeded the $3,100 legal limit — to regulators. Still, Supreme Court Justice Martin Marcus knocked two counts off Norman’s rap sheet
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/28382.htm
Cut to the chase....how many little bastards does he have runnin round?
More than Jessee?
More than Big Al?
Good question.
With all those sexcapades, musta been a few impending fatherhoods.
Although with abortion-worshippers like these depraved Dimocrats, love of abortion is a convenience to eradicate evidence of serial adultery.
Gosh, I guess every one of his supporters will have to dig a little deeper for the next campaign. He can really use the money. ;’)
Yeah, he hasn't even started porking all the chicks in the governor's office, yet....God knows how much that'll cost the taxpayers.
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