Eliot Spitzer finds new job a significant departure from old certainty
The Brevious
28-10-2007, 01:57
I admired Spitzer for some time for his ability to follow through and do exactly what his job required in a time where corruption seemed more rampant and thorough than anytime in recent memory.
Of course, that was in his old job ... whereas now, he's apparently learning the barbed ropes of political inclination that he probably would have done best to steer clear from.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/nyregion/28react.html?ref=nyregion
The governor has been under fierce assault from conservative groups and others since proposing last month to allow illegal immigrants to get New York driver’s licenses. But joined by the federal secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, in Washington yesterday, the governor announced a starkly different version of his plan.
I personally saw his prior career as quite honourable and efficient, whereas ... perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to fill in these particular shoes, given the kinds of accomodations people just have to make.
What do y'all think?
Lacadaemon
28-10-2007, 02:16
I admired Spitzer for some time for his ability to follow through and do exactly what his job required in a time where corruption seemed more rampant and thorough than anytime in recent memory.
Of course, that was in his old job ... whereas now, he's apparently learning the barbed ropes of political inclination that he probably would have done best to steer clear from.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/nyregion/28react.html?ref=nyregion
I personally saw his prior career as quite honourable and efficient, whereas ... perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to fill in these particular shoes, given the kinds of accomodations people just have to make.
What do y'all think?
I live in New York. You have to look at Spitzer as a bit of a Ted Stevens. If you aren't around him, you might have found some of the things he did in the past okay.
But if you were in day to day contact with the dude, you'd get exactly why he's under investigation for major ethics violations while we speak, outside and above the drivers license thing.
The Brevious
28-10-2007, 02:39
I live in New York. You have to look at Spitzer as a bit of a Ted Stevens. If you aren't around him, you might have found some of the things he did in the past okay.
But if you were in day to day contact with the dude, you'd get exactly why he's under investigation for major ethics violations while we speak, outside and above the drivers license thing.
Could be ... AK is a far removal from NY ... what other investigations, if you don't mind me asking?
Lacadaemon
28-10-2007, 03:23
Could be ... AK is a far removal from NY ... what other investigations, if you don't mind me asking?
Oh, his staff are under investigation for orchestrating a smear campaign against the state senate leader; and he's been nailed for giving preference to a lakeside property development plan upstate.
The usual stuff.
Marrakech II
28-10-2007, 03:29
Oh, his staff are under investigation for orchestrating a smear campaign against the state senate leader; and he's been nailed for giving preference to a lakeside property development plan upstate.
The usual stuff.
Sounds like normal operations to me. You just described 95% of politicians.
Linus and Lucy
28-10-2007, 16:49
Eliot Spitzer is the real criminal.
It made a name for itself enforcing various and sundry unjust and illegitimate laws that have never had any moral right to exist.
The Brevious
28-10-2007, 23:01
Eliot Spitzer is the real criminal.
It made a name for itself enforcing various and sundry unjust and illegitimate laws that have never had any moral right to exist.
What, praytell, is a "moral right"?
Examples?
Please don't talk about your feelings alone, i think we need better than that .. maybe even something about "inalienable rights" from the U.S. beginnings ....