It's over : Eliot Spitzer steps down effective Monday
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Sources said a federal money-laundering investigation led agents to Spitzer. According to two sources, Spitzer hit the federal radar when a bank reported to the Internal Revenue Service that a significant amount of money had been suspiciously transferred from one account to another.
After receiving the IRS report last year, the FBI corruption squad linked the account transfers to a prostitution ring, according to various sources.
The FBI criminal division joined the inquiry to look into the prostitution ring, while the federal corruption team continued its investigation into Spitzer. Investigators are focusing on how Spitzer paid for the sexual encounters, what he may have done to conceal the movement and source of the money, and whether he broke any laws doing it, sources said.
There is definitely a criminal investigation.
This is not the end. This is the beginning of the end of Eliot Spitzer.
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Don't forget Nader
Submitted by mole333 on 12 March 2008 - 9:07pm.
Guess you better add Nader to that condemnation since he is buddy-buddy with John McCain...who helped his effort to get on the Florida ballot in 2004. So let's hear you condemn Nader as well.
Personally, I look at broader trends and to me anyone who equates Al Gore, Bill Foster, Russ Feingold, Jerry McNerney, Barack Obama and Barbara Boxer with George Bush, John McCain, Mark Foley and Dick Cheney is just plain not rational in my book.
if true, condemned. but you
Submitted by Daisy (not verified) on 12 March 2008 - 10:06pm.
if true, condemned. but you made an irrational assumption that i am a fan of someone. or anyone. i am not.
i feel that believing in the Democratic party is very misguided. it seems safe to say that almost no one on this board, if anyone, agrees with conservative politics. so why do so many people on here tow the Democratic line?
Spitzer is a crook. he unfairly prosecuted johns and sex workers while using call girls. he misused finances. he ran smear campaigns. he organized investigations against many people for partaking in the same things. of course, his actions do not speak for the
party per se, but they are typical of many politicians, no matter what party they belong to. so of course, he is going to rely on Ted and Scooter and the rest of them. his resignation fails to answer for his behavior. yet with the crooks sticking together, perhaps he will get off Scooter free.
but they ought to give that girl a goddamn Lifetime Hooker Achievement Award for even having to CONSIDER Spitzer naked, let alone sleep with him. i might actually rather sleep with Scooter. Paterson ought to pardon her pussy and whatever else---send her over to Bloomberg's where she will not be bothered--- not because Mike's gay, but because he is too short to reach it.
Not irrational
Submitted by mole333 on 13 March 2008 - 6:33am.
Not so irrational an assumption, though perhaps not correct. Nader and the Greens have been instrumental in spreading the false meme that the two parties are equivalent. Look at the average positions on choice or the environment and you see a HUGE difference. I also would state pretty much unequivocally that had Al Gore taken office, we would not be in Iraq right now and wouldn't be threatening Iran.
It is fair to ask whether there is ENOUGH of a difference and if we can do better. I think no one around here will argue that we can do better...and we fight constantly for better. If you are a regular reader you will know I do criticize the Democrats, though you'd see more of that at Daily Gotham. And I have never been against third parties per se if they are smart and strategic. I have voted Green, WFP and others in the past. But I can say, it has been a lot harder since 2000 when the Nader generated equivalency of the major parties myth first was pushed so hard.
I can understand frustration with the two party system. But it's the bulk of what we have right now, short of someone like Jesse Ventura or Bernie Sanders. Keep in mind most progressives around here eagerly backed Sanders for Senate. To me the strategic way to approach the political system is through groups like Blue Tiger Democrats, Progressive Majority and Democracy for America that empower local people to take control of the political system...within the 2 party system. The people backed by those two groups are fantastic people and are already having an effect on some local and state level parties. I see no viable third party except in certain exceptional cases (e.g. one of my favorite City Councilmembers in NYC is Tish James, Working Families Party). So rather than bang my head on that consistently failing strategy, particularly since 2000, I focus on those people and organizations that are successfully pushing progressivism within the Democratic Party. I also focus a little more on primaries than I used to because I have found that people who complain about the lack of progressivism in the Dem party too often sit out primaries, thus preventing grassroots progressives from winning. A self-fulfilling prophecy which hurts progressives. Right now I can particularly call your attention to Diane Benson in Alaska (amazing woman!), Steve Dahroug and Steve Harrison in New York, and Ed Fallon in Iowa. I think Kucinich is now considered safe, but I donated to help him hold his seat in the House as well.
and he shares a lawyer with
and he shares a lawyer with Scooter Libby! really, i love that Dems and Pubs still insist they are different parties.