August 22, 2007
Compare And Contrast
For what it’s worth…
Click here to listen to the anonymous call placed to Bernard Spitzer’s office on Aug. 6.
Then click here to hear some excerpts of the Senate Republicans now-former consultant, Roger Stone, being interviewed on TV (it appears he’s talking to Tucker Carlson).
Also, an aside that didn’t make it into today’s DN story due to a lack of space:
Stone’s Dale Hemmerdinger defense is a new twist on a technique he has employed in at least one previous controversy.
In September 1996, the National Enquirer wrote that
Stone, then a volunteer spokesman for Sen. Bob Dole, had placed ads and photos seeking sexual partners for himself and his wife, Nydia. Stone denied the allegations, saying he did not place the ads himself and allegeing had been framed by a former domestic helper who had stolen both his photographs and his checkbook.
By Elizabeth Benjamin on August 22, 2007 11:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)
More:
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2007/08 /
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Did Roger Stone have a hand in Elliot's mess?
It certainly seems like it, according to columnist Ellis Henican in today's Newsday. Keep in mind that Henican thinks Stone and his tactics are just. . .nifty!
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nyhen125610573mar12,0,2250157.columnFirst thing in the morning, I was on the Amtrak to Albany. I wanted to see with my own eyes how a whole city gloats.
Stone said that even before I asked if his hand was somehow in Spitzer's latest trouble. I figured, somehow or another, it had to be.
"No comment on that," Stone said. "I will say I knew it was coming. That's why I wasn't too upset about the results of the special election," where a Democrat grabbed a supposedly safe Republican State Senate seat, leaving Democrats just one vote shy of control.
With a guerrilla-politics resume that goes all the way back to Richard Nixon, Stone's fingers have been in some of the most dastardly Republican schemes of the past 40 years, up to and including the Florida 2000 presidential recount. He helped rich guy Tom Golisano make high-priced mischief in the previous governor's race. He returned to Albany last year on the dime of Senate boss Joe Bruno. Desperate to keep his tiny Republican majority in the Senate, Bruno figured Stone could help. And he helped, until he had to quit when a voice that sounded awfully like his turned up making threats on the governor's father's voice mail.
More:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2995772&mesg_id=2995772