Pataki concedes That Aide Paid by Republicans Delivered Meals to His Home

[brooklynite]

ALBANY, Feb. 3 - After maintaining for days that the duties of a personal assistant whom the state's Republican Party hired for Libby Pataki were political and not personal, aides to Gov. George E. Pataki said on Thursday that the assistant had "on occasion" picked up meals for the family.

The assistant, Michelle R. Stubbs, who is paid $50,000 a year by the party to help Mrs. Pataki, had in the past picked up prepared meals at the governor's mansion in Albany and driven them 100 miles south to the Pataki family's home in Garrison, said Kevin Quinn, a spokesman for Mr. Pataki.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/nyregion/04pataki.html?oref=login
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It's always the cover-up that comes back to haunt you.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Don't they have restaurants in Garrison?

That's obscene to drive 100 miles to deliver a meal.

What is it with these privileged assholes? They really have no clue.

[brooklynite]

8. Not, apparently, serving Goat's Milk Yogurt

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/nyregion/02pataki.html

In a visit to the Foodtown store on Monday by a Post reporter, one unidentified bookkeeper for the market recalled Ms. Stubbs asking specifically for goat's milk yogurt, saying "that's what the Patakis want."

[daleo]

17. Imagine if a liberal was caught buying goat's milk yogurt

It would be the top headline on CNN for at least a week.

[Magleetis]

9. The rich and privileged

run the entire US Gov. We the people are powerless.

[wicket]

2. "It's always the cover-up that comes back to haunt you."

Ain't that the truth!

[Zeke]

3. No. No.

I smell something different.

No one drives 100 miles for a meal unless their getting laid, too.

Something else is going on here.\ with Wacky Pataki.

They said it's about meals, but it's not about meals---come one!

[Zeke]

4. CORRECTION...

That's "Come on,' not "come one." Sorry.

[Skittles]

10. Zeke, ya don't have to reply to edit

just click on EDIT on the original message to correct it - they give you one hour from the time you post it :)

editing to add that EDIT is in the lower right-hand corner of da box

[Supersedeas]

5. house calls and bell service for the Republican Oligarchs

ON the taxpayer dime ofcourse

[johnfunk]

6. Meals On Wheels for GOP Heels!

... and imagine my shock when I read that Alfonse d'Amato's disciple George "Sad Sack" Patootie, is using party and government employees like his personal caterers.

[Fridays Child]

7. Mrs. P would have cooked something but she was exhausted from...

...cleaning, all day.

[kskiska]

11. Warning: Graphic Material

Michelle Stubbs, Political Aide

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. What a vision of loveliness

Not!

[johnfunk]

14. Fat, tobacco-addicted, conservative & stupid is no way to go through life!

(borrowed and adapted from Animal House's Dean Vernon Wormer, played by the great John Vernon, who is reported today to have died -- RIP and enjoy that great double secret probation in the sky...

[hector459]

13. OK, I want the MSM to attack this as "Mealgate!"

If this had happened under the Clinton administration, Rush and Drudge would have been pumping this story for months.

[struggle4progress]

15. Join the Ownership Society! Get a free delivery boy!

[PurityOfEssence]

16. Greed and Privilege; the true religions of Republicans

Santorum comes to mind too.