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Okay, we give up. The whole Governor Spitzer-Senate Republican animosity thing has become totally and utterly insane. Someone left a crazy message for Spitzer's father, the wealthy (and 83-year-old) real estate developer Bernard Spitzer. And call has been traced to the apartment of a GOP adviser to State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno!
This is a message for Bernard Spitzer. You will be subpoenaed to testify in front of the Senate committee on investigation on your shady campaign loans. You will be compelled by the Senate sergeant at arms, if you resist, you will be arrested and brought to Albany - and there's not a goddamn thing your phony, psycho piece of s--- son can do about it. Bernie, your phony loans are about to catch up with you. You will be forced to tell the truth. The fact that your son is a pathological liar will be known to all.The "phony loans" referenced relate to a small scandal about loans the developer made to his son for the 1994 Attorney General campaign. You can hear the message here, via the NY Times. A lawyer for Bernard Spitzer said that call was traced to the 40 Central Park South apartment of Roger Stone, who is currently paid $20,000 a month as a GOP consultant.
Bernard Spitzer's lawyer says they compared the voice mail message with a broadcast interview of Stone. The Times says it received the voicemail and the broadcast interview and was "unable to draw any conclusions about whether Mr. Stone’s voice was on Mr. Spitzer’s phone message."
Stone, who has worked for Nixon, Reagan, and the two Bushes, denies that he made a call, saying that someone must have broken into his home and doctored a message. Stone's theory, via the Daily News: "His building is owned by Democratic fund-raiser Dale Hemmerdinger, whom Spitzer has nominated to be the next MTA chairman, and Hemmerdinger's management company, ATCO, has pass keys that could have let in an intruder."
Stone told the Sun he was at the play Frost/Nixon when the call was allegedly made and said, "I have been accused of a lot of things but being dumb is not one of them." And he told the Post, "I don't deny that the phone number is mine but fabricating my voice would be exceedingly easy. Give me a f- - -ing break. This is the ultimate dirty trick and the kind of terror tactic Spitzer used in the Attorney General's Office."
The message became public after the senior Spitzer's lawyer sent a letter to the Senate Committee of Investigations and the State Ethics Commission. The Investigations committee head, George Winner, a Republican, suggested it's easy for caller ID to be changed and a Democratic committee member suggested that Bruno fire Stone.
And in other news, Spitzer will not be attending the opening of the NY State Fair because he'll be on vacation. Former governor Mario Cuomo opened the fair between 1989 and 1994 while former governor George Pataki opened the fair between 1995 through 2006.
Update: Stone has resigned as an adviser to State Senate Republicans. Here's part of Bruno's statement:
The news reports today on allegations regarding Roger Stone can only serve as a distraction from the real issues - the abuse of government power, political espionage and a cover up of information. These are the real issues that are being reviewed by Albany County DA David Soares and the State Ethics Commission.But people love to hear about byzantine plotting through phone calls to the rich fathers of governors!Roger Stone was hired as a consultant to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee in June. He has agreed to resign and end his relationship with us at our request. We are not going to allow this incident to become a distraction or to be used as an excuse to hamper people from getting at the truth.
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Either story (Stone's or Spitzer's) is equally ludicrous.
Who does this kind of stuff?!? It's completely infantile however you look at it.
Watergate Part Deux, anyone?
everyone knows to use a phone card when making crank calls... or a payphone in queens. sheeesh...
I was thinking what if a GOP operative doctored the message from Stone clips and called Spitzer from Stone's home while he was at the theater. I can't wait this is on Law & Order!
That hairdo alone is enough to convict Stone. Is he the gay?
Ah, Roger Stone, the guy that orchestrated Sharpton's 2004 presidential fundraising on the sly and ran the GOP mob that crashed the Florida recount. I reckon this is his style. For more, check this voice story out:
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0405,barrett,50745,1.html
Definitely listen to the clip at NYTimes.com. The priggish glee in the caller's voice is something else.
Basically all you need is a good source who really knows Stone, who would verify whether the tape sounds like him and whether this is something he would do (and then fabricate an elaborate denial for it.)
OMG! I didn't even think of that, Jen. This is going to make an AWESOME L&O!
that graphic is great.
this is all too hilarious: the graphic, the drama, the childishness, and not least, stone's sweeping hair do (er, don't).
Hooray for New York politics!
Stone just resigned per Bruno's request:
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2007/08/bruno_stone_has_resigned.html
The guy's straight out of the Ted Baxter era.
And dont forget, in typical hypocritical GOP social conservative fashion:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x853802
Long and short- He got caught with hookers
I like how the Times actually printed "...phony, psycho, piece-of-shit son..."
I don't deny that the phone number is mine but fabricating my voice would be exceedingly easy. Give me a f- - -ing break. This is the ultimate dirty trick and the kind of terror tactic Spitzer used in the Attorney General's Office.
This sort of ranting quote doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that he *didn't* do it.
typical hypocritical GOP social conservative fashion:
You're a real rocket scientist aren't you? Did this guy ever proclaim his belief in conservative social values? If so he's a hypocrit. But if he didn't then being in the GOP doesn't make him a hypocrit. Most people don't support every single plank of their party's platform.
Stone forgets the first rule of Making Up Bullshit -- keep it believable. Fail.
I would have thought that this guy was drunk, but his message sounds too lucid... scripted, even. WTF was he thinking?
More on Stone:
http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/09-96/09-13-96/a04wn026.htm
Nice one, guest, that is good stuff.
"The Post quoted Mr. Stone as conceding that the bills for the postings on the Internet site were paid for with his credit card. He told the newspaper the post office box number listed on the Internet site belonged to him, but had been improperly obtained."
It seems to happen to him all the time! Poor guy!
Is he gay? Hardly. As the ad in Swing Fever says, he's insatiable.
http://www.nndb.com/people/844/000047703/
This guy was implicated in the TANG forgeries as well. A real swell he is.
it is quite easy to make a outgoing phone call from a
target number in many locations in a a apartment building, in fact it is quite easy to make a outgoing phone call from a number that terminates in one building from another building a block away, there is no way to tell where the call originated. it is also quite easy to identify the pair of wires that is that individual phone number any where from the central office to its bridging and terminating locations.
it the voice don't fit dont convict
#5 haha Yes, he should be a welcome addition to any federal penitentiary.