Censure Alternative March 29, 2008
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Testimony Shows Spitzer Ordered Travel-Records Release On GOP Leader
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A prosecutor said Friday that former Gov. Eliot Spitzer may have lied when he told investigators he wasn’t deeply involved in a plot that used a Republican rival’s travel records in an effort to embarrass him. He added that Spitzer could have been indicted had he not resigned in disgrace in a prostitution scandal.
Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares said in a report that Spitzer’s former communications director, Darren Dopp, recounted conversations and e-mails that indicated Spitzer directly ordered him in a profanity-laced exchange to give a reporter records regarding Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno’s use of state aircraft on days he attended Republican fundraisers.
We learned from the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal that perjury isn’t really a crime when the underlying subject matter is trivial. And since this deal with Spitzer was only about airplanes, a censure is definitely in order.
Profiling March 29, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime, Illinois & Metro East, Racial Profiling.comments closed
Illinois state rep. robbed in her home
East St. Louis — State Rep. Wyvetter Younge was forced to the ground and robbed at gunpoint in her home in East St. Louis on Friday, authorities said.
At 77, Younge is among the Legislature’s most senior members.
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Police canvassed the neighborhood after the robbery, but no arrests had been made as of late Friday, said Master Sgt. Jim Morrisey of the Illinois State Police.
How ironic would it be if a white ISP officer spied the suspect, but didn’t want to pull him over because the incident would sully the officer’s racial profiling stats? Wonder hwo Rep. Younge voted on the bill that prohibited “racial profiling” in the state.
