Monday, February 27, 2006

Eliot Spitzer Is Just FINE With Me

Ask yourself, would the legend of Robin Hood be the same if he stole from Kings to give to Princes? Probaly not, but in modern day America it means youre on the gubernatorial fast track in New York. Or at least that is if your name is Eliot Spitzer, Corporate Crime Fighter, the avenger of the little guy and righter of corporate wrongs.

The only problem is thats its a crock of shit.

This grandstanding buffoon has accomplished naught in his regulatory raindancing. Well that's not entirely true, he actually does quite a bit for the taxpayers of the great state of New York. First and most damaging is the false sense of reform he gives the "little guy". Have no fear Eliot is here to save the day. How many prosecutions does he have, how many of his "cases" have gone to court? Not many I tell ya. See this guys modus operandi is to hold press conferences (fantastic free air time for his gov run) make outlandish charges about the evils of industry and then opens his hand for the eventual payout.

Now this is where it gets interesting. See, although a lawyer..in fact he refers to himself as "The Peoples Lawyers" Uh oh, fifteen minutes to Judge Wapner. Course, three minutes to Wapner. Ten minutes to Wapner. As I was saying this guy is apparently some hotshot attorney, yet in his good judgement he sees it fit to overlook his responsibility as AG, and the staff he has at his command to hire outside private law firms to broker his "deals" with his shakedown victims. Now why would he do something as silly as that? He has an army of legal eagles on state payroll, yet he outsources? Huh! Again I ask why would he do such a thing? Oh thats right. The private law firms he hires work on contingency, claiming upwards of thirty cents on every dollar they broker between Eliot and his victims. If that wasnt bad enough, these same law firms are his biggest donors in his Gov run. The firm Milberg Weiss alone has given him over $100,000, $20k in the last month.


Now if thats not a fucking racket I dont know what is.

In short, Eliot uses the Jesse Jackson method, but instead of threatening boycotts he threatens prosecution, which never comes to fruition. His buddies that broker the deals make hundred and hundreds of millions of dollars, he gets huge contributions to his campaign. The state puts the rest into an "investment fund" meant for the victims of aforementioned (but never prosecuted) corporate fraud, but like lottery cash intended for education it rarely serves its purpose besides being slush. He receives copius amounts of free airtime not held to the equal time rule, and with a monstrous war chest will be a formidable candidate for Gov'nor.

He has driven virtually every industry out of New York State, except Financial and he has his eyes set on destroying that as well. He is a nightmare to this state and to this this country. No reform is ever achieved, no little guys are ever avenged. If he is elected Gov'nor. The once great state of New York will become nothing more than a tourist trap with no viable industry to speak of. Hes just another rich honkey abusing his position to make his buddies richer and to grab some more power for himself. Make no bones about Eliot Spitzer is a bad guy in sheeps clothing (that is, if sheep wore $5000 custom suits)

EE-Baw!!!


and one more thing...Kill Whitey!

16 comments:

Mookie McFly said...

I did not know that...I did know that he took care of Don Imus's legal beefs with his charitable organizations and his ranch which were under investigation...He took care of it and it all disappeared when he started giving Spitzer trouble on tha air waves (he was referring to him as a little weazel)...It seems that it is better to inherently distrust lawyers, even the seemingly "good" ones...

Rhino-itall said...

I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am.
Anyway, what a jamoke!
Heres another little tid bit that doesn't get talked about.

In 2002, Spitzer's office issued subpoenas to 24 non-profit crisis pregnancy centers that sought to dissuade women from having abortions. Anti-abortion groups criticized Spitzer, charging that he was harassing the centers on behalf of a political ally, NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Just thought i'd add some fuel to the fire with the ever popular abortion topic.

Anonymous said...

Were they issued for simply existing with the benign intent to dissuade women or were they actively engaged in behavior that a reasonable person could construe as constituting harassment, intimidation, or fostering a climate of threat or implied retribution?

And Rhino you know darn well what I was really getting at with the abortion post, and why I chose that example to talk about where we stand on Big Brother and intervention. AS much as we would probably hit each other in real life, I think you get what I am asking. I am not really talking about the abortion issue, but rather, the questions I posed.

New York does have industry, what about the casino industry because of Pataki's marauding? Not to mention lovely prisons to employ the upstate demographic. Damn I miss Cuomo, had such hopes for Andrew. At least I can still have girlish lust for Shuck Chumer.

Rhino-itall said...

I'm with you lily, i just like to mess with you. I don't want to be too nice to you since you're the enemy, but lets just say i wouldn't hit you in the real world. Keep up the good work, you are one of the few rational voices i hear on your side of the issues.

Anonymous said...

This is grossing me out, Rhino...

Rhino-itall said...

sorry nip. just callin em like i see em, like when i called piazza a bitch.

Mookie McFly said...

'Sup with that man...I wuz jus' playin' playa'. Don't go the Piazza whacking route. Can't we all just get along? That's all I's sayin' though...for real though? A'ight...

Rhino-itall said...

sorry fly, i shouldn't have gotten all personal on you. i'll try to leave piazza's bitchness off the table from now on.

Anonymous said...

Struggling not to laugh while Gadfly works on 'keepin it real'.

Rational? Gee, I scored pretty shitty on that domain at E HARMONY dot com.

Anonymous said...

Piazza is Hitler!

Imus is Hitler!

Rhino-itall said...

lily eharmony? why don't you just date the donkey? sure he's not very handsome, and probably 10 years your senior, but he does have good hair. just ask gadfly, he's more than happy to comment on another mans mane.

Mookie McFly said...

Piazza is Hitler
Imus is...I think.

What can I say? The Donkey's pretty (gad)fly for a white guy?
Oh well, at least he's not bald and married like some people...not that there's anything wrong with that! And for the record, I'm the vernacular original, spectacular in the visual and I'll break it off for real if you don't respect this individual...Yeah, I went there.

Anonymous said...

He's right I may not be very handsome but I sure am ugly.

I am Hitler

Anonymous said...

I'm simply spectacular, smooth like an Acura
Yo, check my vernacular



Like I said, Donkey had me at hee-haw.

Rhino-itall said...

I'm smoother than the Philharmonics with my killer phonics
And melodic, shit I'm fucking iller than a fill of chornic

Yeah mia, thats some good snit!

Anonymous said...

"Killer phonics worked for me!"

Sadly, I only got the season tickets my relatives discarded for the Philharmonic.

Snit violates the Aurora's comment policy. I'm afraid you will be punished. Acupuncture by Bono.