Posted on 02/08/2010 6:53:21 AM PST by Shellybenoit
Is the Governor Paterson Scandal a Horse of a Different Color?
During yesterday's big game, the internet news community was agog with something other than football. The big rumor was that the NY Times was going to publish the Governor David Paterson scandal today, and the Governor was going to be forced to resign. That didn't happen but there is a scandal beginning to unravel regarding political influence, campaign contributions and horse racing.
Yesterdays rumors involved a small item from Business insider.
Business Insider is reporting Elizabeth Benjamin at The Daily News describes the report as "much worse" than the governor's previous admission of an affair with a state employee, though she declines to name NYT by name. We've now heard from a single source familiar with the goings on at the Governor's office that the story will likely drop on Monday, and that the governor's resignation will follow.
Quickly after it broke, Kerry Picket of the Washington Times began to update the reports:
* BUSINESS INSIDER UPDATE: The governor's office completely denies any plans to resign and says "the Times story" will not run tomorrow.
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Did someone mention horse? Does it have anything to do with Silky Pony or Ben Whitegelding Nelson?
That married Governor was pictured feeling up and was reportedly kissing a woman in a restaurant about a week ago but I guess thats okay since NY doesn’t much do morality anymore.
And it was only one woman too!
I guess he'd have to take our word on it.
Doesn’t Zero have a serious grudge against this guy? Why am I thinking “set up”?
He wasn’t feeling her up.
He was evaluating how attractive she was...in Braille.
1. Pre-announced scoops tend to be anticlimactic. Given the moral swamp that exists in Albany generally and the Democrat party in particular, no one is going to be surprised or particularly outraged unless it is a charge of a capital felony of historic consequences.
2. The last “scoop” by the New York Times involving a candidate whose opponent the Times had endorsed was a baseless February, 2008 story about Senator John McCain having an affair with a lobbyist named Vicki Iseman. You'd think the Times might have tightened its ethical policies a bit since then. Apparently, not. 3. Saturday's WSJ editorial should scuttle Son of Mario's political comeback for a while if not for good regardless of what the Times prints. http://www.luxlibertas.com/wsj-editorial-blaming-bank-of-america/
lol
Feeling up?
He’s blind and was just trying to read.
1. Pre-announced scoops tend to be anticlimactic. Given the moral swamp that exists in Albany generally and the Democrat party in particular, no one is going to be surprised or particularly outraged unless it is a charge of a capital felony of historic consequences.
2. The last “scoop” I recall by the New York Times involving a candidate whose opponent the Times had endorsed was a baseless February, 2008 story about Senator John McCain having an affair with a lobbyist named Vicki Iseman. You'd think the Times might have tightened its ethical policies a bit since then. Apparently, not. 3. Saturday's WSJ editorial should scuttle Son of Mario's political comeback for a while if not for good regardless of what the Times prints. http://www.luxlibertas.com/wsj-editorial-blaming-bank-of-america/
Trying to read her body language and communicate in tongues.
That's a relief. I saw "horse" in the headline. Never know what these guys are doing in that office.
Paterson is on his own. Obama already publicly disowned and humiliated him, and the Dem. machine is behind Cuomo. Since Paterson did not gracefully bow-out, they will wreck him.
Hey, he’s blind. Maybe it was a case of mistaken identity when he was getting his jollies in a restaurant with an unknown female(sarc). The Dems want him out and he was dragging his feet about resigning...ergo, out comes whatever they were holding over him...that’s how this administration works.
Sooo, the NY DemRats and allies are preferring a white guy over their black governor? How racist of them-—and insensitive for casting off the man with the disability!
Democrats—thy real name is HYPOCRITES.
Was the woman of a ‘different color’? That seemed to matter to some libs when Tiger Woods’ liasons weren’t ‘diverse’ enough.
That was my first thought but I don’t know if it was Obama that didn’t like him or someone in NY politics.
If Paterson is renominated, the Republicans win. Dems know that, and Paterson won’t step aside for Andrew Cuomo. They want Cuomo, and this is all about taking Paterson out by any means necessary.
This just gives me the heebie jeebies. I could not in good conscience take a job where I had to tell lies and grovel for anything. I could never be a politician!
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