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• Explications: Joe Bruno Victimhood Campaign Rolls On

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:20 am

  Tags: Eliot Spitzer, Explications, Fred U Dicker, Joe Bruno, New York Post, Politics

  New York Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno continues to pound away at Eliot Spitzer, raising the possibility that the Senate may compel the governor to testify in one of the multiple investigations...

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• All That's Left Is Our Friendship: Shelly Silver Lends Eliot Spitzer A Hand

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: All That S Left Is Our Friendship, Eliot Spitzer, Joe Bruno, Politics, Shelly Silver

  You remember that scene in The Godfather, Part II where the Nevada senator wakes up in the whorehouse next to a dead prostitute and Corleone family consigliere Tom Hagen shows up and tells him, don't...

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• What Can Brown Do for You?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:44 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Albany, Andrew Cuomo, Breasts, Brooklyn, Crime, Eliot Spitzer, Gays, Jon Corzine, Memorials, New Jersey, Republicans

  • Try following this: Spitzer's office said no to a Republican proposal to grant Andrew Cuomo special-prosecutor powers so that Cuomo could better stick it to Spitzer. Yeah. [NYDN]• The 9/11 families are threatening to boycott the ceremony commemorating the attacks' sixth anniversary if it isn't held in the middle of an active

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• All Eliot's Investigations

  Published: July 31, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: In Other News, Albany, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics

  has the most to lose if Spitzer's zeal isn't reined in. Their latest brainstorm, on Monday, was to try to hand Cuomo special-prosecutor powers to investigate Spitzer further. One problem: Spitzer is the one who has to approve the request. Shockingly, he declined. The Senate GOP's next step would be to proceed via its own investigations

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• He Wants You to Want Him to Testify

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:45 am

  Tags: Bancroft Family, Dow Jones, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics, Jim Mcgreevey, Mike Bloomberg, Rudy Giuliani

  • Spitzer on testifying under oath about his non-involvement in the Joe Bruno surveillance: "I'm happy to, going to, look forward to it." Anything else? "I'd love to." [NYP]• Rudy Giuliani unveiled his universal health-care plan. What do you know, it somehow involves a tax cut. [NYDN] • Leslie Hill, a Bancroft who opposed

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• Eliot Spitzer Has Reached Acceptance

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Albany, City Council, Crime, Ed Koch, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics, Florida, Memorials, Mike Bloomberg, New York Post, Queens, Sex, The New York Times

  by the governor's office. Spitzer, sounding more Zen by the minute: "I welcome it, I accept it." [amNY]• Queens City Councilman Dennis Gallagher told a grand jury to call him an adulterer and not a rapist; he left a 52-year-old woman injured after a tryst in his district office. [NYDN] • 9/11 families filed for a permit to hold

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• All the Governor's Men: Where Are They Now?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:06 pm

  Tags: In Other News, Albany, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics

  rolled out of Albany in the Spitzer scandal! When the news of the administration's vendetta against Joe Bruno broke, Spitzer quickly got rid of communications director Darren Dopp and state-police liaison William Howard, suspending Dopp and saying Howard would be "reassigned to a position outside of the governor's office." We'll take the second

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• Follow the E-mail

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:40 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Abortion, Courts, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics, Mike Bloomberg, New Jersey, President, Rudy Giuliani, Stewart Airport

  The Post, in another damning Spitzer exclusive (it's almost as if someone well connected in Albany hated the governor!), claims the administration is hiding a trove of private scandal-related e-mails, which Attorney General Cuomo, lacking subpoena power, didn't get. [NYP]• Rudy Giuliani's campaign says his speeches in Iowa this week will

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• Behind an Anti-Spitzer Site, an Ally of Roger Stone

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:44 am

  Tags: Politics, Eliot Spitzer, Michael Caputo, Roger Stone

  a link to a new-ish anti-Eliot Spitzer web site called SpitzerFile.com, which is supposed to be a one-stop shop for information (19 pages' worth) about how the governor financed his 1994 and 1998 campaigns for attorney general. After calling a number at the bottom of the page, I got to Michael Caputo, a former campaign aide to George H.W.

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• The Today Show Covers Albany

  Published: August 6, 2007, 10:03 am

  Tags: Politics, Eliot Spitzer, Matt Lauer

  Here's a link to a segment on this morning's Today Show about Eliot Spitzer and the Brunogate scandal in Albany. (Tech Note: The clips on Internet Explorer, but may not play on Mozilla.) It's another sign, unfortunately for Spitzer, that this is a storyline with some mass-market appeal.

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• Spitzer's numbers drop

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Eliot Spitzer, Andrew Cuomo

  distanced themselves from Spitzer, refusing to come to his defense. One Democrat in the Assembly said, "Coming clean would be the best thing to do".Spitzer may also be facing a loan investigation going back to his 1998 campaign for Attorney General against Dennis Vacco. It involves a multi million dollar loan that Spitzer acknowledges not

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• Death at NYU

  Published: August 7, 2007, 9:43 am

  Tags: Courts, Death, Eliot Spitzer, Fdny, Joe Bruno, Mike Bloomberg, Nypd, Nyu, Republicans

  Joe Bruno is outraged that Spitzer reassigned or suspended his top aides instead of outright firing them, because otherwise they'd finger the governor. Wait, so the logic is that the fall guys have not fallen hard enough? [NYDN] • With conflicts of interest galore, Mayor Bloomberg didn't make the cut on his day of jury duty; interestingly

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• Ba Ba Ba, Ba Barbaralee

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:52 am

  Tags: Gossipmonger, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Ashlee Simpson, Barbaraless Diamondstein Spielvogel, Ben Stiller, Britney Spears, Chris Rock, Democrats, Dina Lohan, Edgar Bronfman Jr, Eliot Spitzer, Gwen Stefani, Hamptons, Howard Dean, Howard Stern, Jennifer Aniston, Marc J

  she has donated money to Spitzer, who's now trying to look ethically pure. Gwen Stefani loves breast-feeding even though she's been getting bitten. Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz refused to be photographed with their KY Intimacy Kit swag bags at Lollapalooza because they were scared of Joe Simpson. Tracy Morgan wants to get his SCRAM ankle

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• Scandal-Ridden Eliot Spitzer Posts 'Happy Talk' Blog On Daily Kos

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:53 am

  Tags: Political Scandals, Eliot Spitzer, Daily Kos, Blogs

  you are New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, aka Steamroller Spitzer, immersed in a scandal that threatens to destroy your political career, you go looking for love in the Daily Kos with a divorced from reality "Happy Talk" blog post that makes no mention any pending unpleasantries. Spitzer's "Happy Talk" love fest on the Daily

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• Spitzer's Self-Flagellation, Continued

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:27 pm

  Tags: Politics, Eliot Spitzer

  one parallel made between Eliot Spitzer's problems in Albany and George Bush's in Washington (private emails, invoking executive privilege, etc.) In a speech delivered this morning in Western New York, Spitzer tried drawing a clearer distinction. From the prepared remarks: As we engage in our fight for change, we must remember what history

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