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.
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