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CNN picks up former Attorney General Spitzer
Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:35 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:35
From New York Post:
Ted Turner must be flinging his remote at the wall in despair. CNN, the cable network he founded, is poised to turn its prime-time schedule over to two disgraced public figures, ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and former British tabloid editor Piers Morgan, in its desperate bid to restore lost ratings.
Hooker-loving Spitzer is thisclose to a deal to co-host an 8 p.m. talk show, sources said. Morgan — a former editor of Britain’s Daily Mirror being groomed to replace Larry King — was caught up in a scandal in 2000 after he bought shares in a company before his paper touted them as good buys. He quit in 2004 after printing fake photos of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by British soldiers.
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NY: Eliot Spitzer an Anchorman?
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:03 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:24
From CNN Money:
Two years after resigning as governor of New York in a prostitution scandal — and after many hours spent toying with an early leap back into politics — Spitzer has finally reconciled himself to remaining on the sidelines in 2010.
For months, Spitzer practically drooled at the thought of taking on potential targets. He’s not a fan of attorney general Andrew Cuomo’s, who is heading toward coronation as New York’s next governor. He views U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as a woman of fungible beliefs, ripe for primary challenge. And he regards state comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a likeable former assemblyman elevated to the job in early 2007 by his legislative peers, as a lightweight. (Days after taking office, DiNapoli flunked a pop quiz on finance — administered by the New York Post!)
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NY: Disgraced ex-Governor Spitzer Thinks Current Governor is doing Great Job
Last Updated on Friday, 13 November 2009 02:05 Written by rslcpol Friday, 13 November 2009 02:05
From New York Daily News:
Gov. Paterson may not have the President’s backing, but he got a ringing endorsement Thursday from hooker-happy Eliot Spitzer – the man who got him into this mess in the first place.
“David is a friend. He is somebody I support,” the disgraced former governor said at Harvard University’s Safra ethics center.
“All Democrats in the state should support him,” Spitzer told the Daily News after delivering a lecture on big business corruption.
“He is making tough decisions on the budget and the welter of issues that need to be confronted in a moment of economic crisis, and he is doing so thoughtfully.”
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Call Him Professor Spitzer
Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:22 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:22
From PressConnects.com:
Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has a new job: adjunct political science professor at the City College of New York.
Spitzer, who resigned in March 2008 when he was linked to a prostitution ring, confirmed Tuesday that he is teaching a course at the city college in Manhattan. Classes started Tuesday.
The college said he’s teaching a three-hour law and public policy class once a week in the political-science department for the fall semester. He will earn what adjuncts there receive, $98.43 an hour, said college spokesman Ellis Simon.
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NY: Spitzer Itching for a Comeback?
Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 May 2009 02:53 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:32
Whatever happened to just going away? From Newsday.com:
Consider yourself warned. Ex- Gov. Eliot Spitzer, long on pride and short on shame, might try for a comeback, even if he now says otherwise.
Last week he showed up with wife Silda Wall at a Waldorf- Astoria fundraiser, schmoozing and posing for photos. He was quoted as defending his just-ousted transit appointee Lee Sander, in an implicit criticism of Gov. David A. Paterson. He’s been on TV – only after insistent invites, he noted on one station – holding forth on such matters as the AIG collapse.
Also last week, a Marist poll said 51 percent of registered voters (44 percent in the suburbs) would prefer him to Paterson as governor. This just means Paterson – whom Spitzer made his successor – has amazingly low ratings. But a true political creature would take it as the public craving his return.
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Political Comeback?? Spitzer to run for Attorney General??
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 April 2009 01:03 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 16 April 2009 01:03
From the NY Post:
After launching a column on Slate.com, and giving interviews to National Public Radio and the “Today” show, the sources say, the disgraced former governor told friends: “My record as governor was disappointing, but the voters will remember my excellent two terms as attorney general.”
The sources say Spitzer, forever tarnished as Client No. 9 of a prostitution agency, expects Andrew Cuomo to run for governor next year, leaving open the AG job. Several Democrats are already being mentioned as potential candidates, including Nassau County Executive Tom Suozziand state Assemblymen Richard Brodsky (Westchester) and Michael Gianaris(Queens).
But Spitzer, whose resignation just 13 months ago led to the gubernatorial ascension of hapless David Paterson, might be underestimating the public’s memory. Even before Spitzer went on “Today” to resurrect his image as “the sheriff of Wall Street” and discuss his “gremlins,” a New York Times column recently referred to him as “that caustic echo of yesteryear.”‘
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NY: Spitzer Scandal Anniversary – A Year Later
Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 March 2009 01:56 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 10 March 2009 09:29
From the Times Union:
Outside of Spitzer’s own home, the scandal hit hardest in one building: the state Capitol. Here are stories from that day, told by a cross-section of the people who work there:
Barbara Bartoletti, New York State League of Women Voters legislative director; also served on Spitzer’s transition team:
“I read the headlines, and then I thought, ‘Oh, this can’t be a joke,'” Bartoletti recalled. “We just sat there and I went, ‘Oooooh, oh, my God. Oh my God! I don’t believe this!”
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NY: Dem Governor’s Approval Ratings Now Lower than Spitzers!
Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 March 2009 04:08 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 4 March 2009 12:45
Oh the openings this creates for Andrew Cuomo. We hope he doesn’t have any short shorts pictures out there. From Newsday.com:
A poll Monday showed Gov. David Paterson with the lowest approval rating of any New York governor in 30 years, even worse than Eliot Spitzer after he was named in a prostitution investigation.
But Paterson tried to treat the latest dismal poll like old news. Instead, he pushed a politically difficult New York City bridge toll proposal, continued to call for more spending cuts, and warned the deficit may grow $3 billion worse in a few months. He was trying to return to his early form in 2008, when New Yorkers responded well to his calls for fiscal discipline in Albany after he took over when Spitzer resigned in March.
Asked what his renewed tough demeanor and some unpopular stands on the fiscal crisis will mean to his election prospects in 2010, Paterson said he just doesn’t care.
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Judge Rules to Release Spitzer Wiretaps
Last Updated on Thursday, 19 February 2009 01:20 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 19 February 2009 01:20
From FoxNews:
A Manhattan judge has ordered the government to make public sealed documents about wiretaps in the Eliot Spitzer scandal.
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff ordered prosecutors Thursday to release documents detailing calls on cell phones used by a prostitution ring whose clients included the former governor. The documents were not immediately released; prosecutors will have a chance to appeal.
The New York Times sued late last year to get the material unsealed. The newspaper has agreed to allow the government to withhold the names of 67 customers named in the documents.
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Spitzer’s Dad Looks to Buy Building Behind Mayflower Hotel
Last Updated on Thursday, 19 February 2009 01:18 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 19 February 2009 11:14
Need a recap of Eliot Spitzer’s hi-jinks? Not happy with just a recap, apparently very soon you’ll be able to see for yourself just what Love Client Number 9 actually said when he called to set up his encounters. From DC Examiner:
Could Bernard Spitzer be looking to keep an eye out on his son? Probably not, but in a funny coincidence, Eliot Spitzer’s father is attempting to purchase the office building at 1615 L Street NW — which happens to overlook the Mayflower Hotel.
As most will remember, Eliot Spitzer, then the governor of New York, spent the night before Valentine’s Day last year in the hotel with 22-year-old call girl Ashley Dupre.
New-York based real-estate company Broadway Partners currently owns the 13-story building and, like several other “young and flashy companies who got too overloaded,” as one source dubbed them, they’re facing the reality of the economic crisis. The private-equity firm had borrowed $1.5 billion from now-defunct Lehman Brothers and, because of missed payments, could be forced to send three buildings, including 1615 L Street, to auction. But not if Bernard Spitzer gets his way.
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