Joseph Bruno (Spitzer's arch-enemy) BINGO!

[SoCalDem]

BINGO.....
SENATOR BRUNO CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO GOVERNOR SPITZER'S USE OF STATE POLICE TO MONITOR ELECTED OFFICIALS

05 Jul 2007

I was stunned to learn that Governor Spitzer is using the fine men and women of the New York State Police to conduct surveillance on me. This type of dangerous abuse of power is despicable, possibly illegal and undermines our democratic form of government.

I am calling on the state Inspector General to investigate the Governor's abuse of the powers of the State Police. I am also requesting the Attorney General and Albany County District Attorney to convene grand juries to assess the criminal liability of the Governor for his abuse of the power of his office and the misuse of the State Police for political espionage.

I am also calling on the acting Superintendent of the State Police to immediately commence an internal investigation regarding these reports.

The heart of why people have elected government is to ensure that citizens are protected from this type of abuse. When the Governor abuses his power, it not only works against his political enemies, it undermines the entire fabric of democracy.

The Governor's pattern of behavior over the years, his repeated physical threats to state officials and others, his complete and total disregard for the state legislature, his desire to run state government as a dictatorship, his continued disregard for the truth and now his willingness to use the State Police for surveillance in hopes of gaining some type of political advantage should send shivers up the spine of every New Yorker and raise serious questions about his fitness to serve in the state's highest office.

more @

http://www.senatorbruno.com/43/news/07-07-05/senator_bruno_calls_for_investigation_into_governor_spitzer_s_use_of_state_police_to_monitor_elected_officials.aspx
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Spitzer "took down" Bruno , and it looks like Bruno got even....in spades..

Joseph Bruno


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[SoCalDem]

1. Another article.. the day before the other one. ".. et tu, Bruno"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/07/24/2007-07-24_et_tu_bruno_hes_likely_to_hit_back_hard.html


Et tu, Bruno? He's likely to hit back hard

BY JOE MAHONEY
DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF

Tuesday, July 24th 2007, 4:00 AM


Sen. Joe Bruno has new life in his feud with Gov. Spitzer after a report by the attorney general finds Spitzer's aides improperly used state police.

Senate GOP leader Joe Bruno is likely to swing back hard at Gov. Spitzer, taking advantage of the cloud hanging over the administration, Republican activists said last night.

"You don't pick a fight with Boxcar Joe and expect he's not going to hit back," a GOP strategist close to New York's top Republican said.

Bruno, 78, gave little hint of what his next move would be - though he crowed he was right all along when he declared himself the target of a political plot.

"The attorney general's report confirmed what I have said all along, that my use of the state helicopter was completely appropriate and within all the existing rules and guidelines for its use," Bruno said.

But he was a little coy about the report's findings on the conduct of certain key Spitzer aides - including Communications Director Darren Dopp. "We will thoroughly review the report's disturbing conclusions regarding the activities of the governor's staff ... before commenting any further," Bruno said.

A source close to Senate Republicans said it is likely Spitzer, 48, and his elderly father, Bernard, will be subpoenaed before a legislative panel looking into a questionable loan the governor got from his dad to aid his 1998 run for state attorney general.


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and another one..involving emails

E-gregious mistake

Team Eliot, which used Net to nab Wall St. crooks, caught in own Web

BY HELEN KENNEDY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, July 24th 2007, 4:00 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/07/24/2007-07-24_egregious_mistake.html
For political skulduggery, the scheme laid out in Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's report yesterday was strictly amateur hour.

The governor's men - whose boss gained fame taking down deceitful Wall Street analysts with their own e-mails - got caught in the Net themselves.

Gov. Spitzer's crew began e-mailing each other about gathering itineraries and schedules documenting Joe Bruno's travel - information they would later claim was released because reporters asked for it - more than a month before the first actual media request July 1.

Spitzer Communications Director Darren Dopp sent a May 23 e-mail to the Secretary to the Governor Richard Baum, musing about the Senate Republican leader's travels and "a new and different way to proceed re media."

On June 3, Dopp e-mailed Baum about Bruno's troubles with a federal grand jury saying, "Think a travel story would fit nicely in the mix."

One of the most damaging e-mails - not because of what it said but what the report said it illuminated - was sent May 21 from Acting State Police Superintendent Preston Felton to homeland security official Bill Howard, who acted as a liaison to state police, asking whether he should keep approving travel for Bruno.
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and this from MARCH 07..very telling...

Kinds of Vulgarity
http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/kinds-of-vulgarity/
By Danny Hakim

The Empire Zone continues its efforts to create a full historical record of the March 14 dust-up between Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, amid tense budget negotiations. As previously reported, words were exchanged and voices were raised in the governor’s office, according to several people present or close by. And after Mr. Bruno made a lewd reference to the close political relationship of the governor and the Senate minority leader, Malcolm A. Smith, Mr. Spitzer stormed out of his office, saying, “I’m not going to abide that kind of vulgarity.”

As not previously reported, the governor, who is known to use a coarse word or two, then turned to his aides in the next room and said, “But there are plenty of kinds of vulgarity I would tolerate.”

[matcom]

2. That evil Bruno PLACED Spitzer's penis in that $5,500 hooker's mouth!

that man has power no other human will ever know!

[SoCalDem]

3. Probably not, But you have to know that Bruno's having a hell of a party

That's what's so stupid about Spitzer. HE KNEW that Bruno would get even.. and he still could not control his little friend :)

[matcom]

5. Spitzer is the biggest idiot on the planet

and I for one HATE 'moral crusaders' nomatter what party they hang their hat on. Good times over here, good times

[SoCalDem]

6. Personally, I don;t even want to know what people do in their private lives

BUT.. if they are a bible thumper or holier-than-thou type, & go around telling other people how to live... they BETTER walk the walk.. If not, then I have NO sympathy for them.. I do feel soooo sad for the kids though..and the wife.. They have to live with this too..and they didn;t deserve it

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. If Spitzer resigns, Bruno will be the new Lieutenant Governor, next in line to the Governorship.

[Perry Logan]

7. If you believe ANY allegations against a Democrat, you're a slow learner.

[SoCalDem]

8. So.. he was lying in the press conference? Why would he do that>

Maybe that stuff in our water was Love Potion #9..for client #9..and it's not his fault??? :rofl:

[matcom]

9. oh gawd. you HAVE to be kidding me

:rofl:

[Perry Logan]

10. That's S-L-O-W L-E-A-R-N-E-R.

I think they took him out because he was sponsoring an important abortion-rights bill. Where Democratic reputations are destroyed, you will find Republicans behind it.

[matcom]

11. I think Denny Hastert was pissed off that he lost his race

and he took Spitzer's penis out of his pants and PLACED it in the vaginal cavity of a $5500 prostitute and THEN, as he gently pushed Spitzer in the back to create gyrating movements, pulled out a tape recorder to document the evidence.

then he took Spitzer out to the bank and FORCED him to shuffle funds between bank accounts so they could return to the hotel room and pay the obviously republican operative known by her code name as 'Kristen' for said gyrating movements.

evil. they are so evil.

[Perry Logan]

12. That's some industrial-strength sarcasm. But you're a fool not to smell Republican scullduggery.

[KharmaTrain]

15. And He Did This Retroactively...

Yep...repugnicans now have figured out the space/time continuom...so that they can now manufacture a scandal post facto...yep...they put Spitzer in a time machine, gave him some CIA-created sex drug and then set him up in a DC hotel. Yep...that's surely plausible.

:sarcasm:

It's sad when I see the hypocrisy of some here as glaring as those in Freeperville...partisan trumps both illegal and stupidity.

[SoCalDem]

20. Love Potion #9.. for Client #9

:)

[KharmaTrain]

22. I Closed My Eyes...I Took A Drink

:toast:

The other song in my ever-running soundtrack this morning is Tempted by Squeeze and Busted by Ray Charles.

;-)

[SoCalDem]

23. This song will take it away..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo

[acmavm]

13. Yeah, them damn twicky wascals. They MADE him stick it to

those hookers.

Personally I think it's more like the old saying 'A stiff dick has no conscience'.

[JerseygirlCT]

14. Well, only because Spitzer gave him the opening

It's important to remember that. He's not a victim here.

[Perry Logan]

16. One is a fool to believe any part of any accusation against a Democrat.

[theboss]

21. Maybe Spitzer has an evil twin who was boning prostitutes

I believe that was an episode of Law and Order.

[JerseygirlCT]

24. One is a fool to believe in a manichean world

where Democrat means one can do no wrong, and Republican means one can do no right.

We're all individuals. Even Democrats screw up. He did.

[SoCalDem]

17. That's the truth.. it shows how stupid he was .. he HAD to know that Bruno

would seek revenge

[HamdenRice]

18. The timing is amazing! Just in time to prevent a Dem takeover of the state legislature

An analysis here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2988882&mesg_id=2988882

[SoCalDem]

19. Nothing in politics happens by accident n/t