Joe Bruno attended a fundraiser last night for his embattled state party here in Manhattan last night and he could not help but turn his vitriol on his new nemesis Eliot Spitzer. Instead of focusing on the all the highlights his majority status has collected throughout the years (there are none) he went after the Governor with everything he had.
From The Empire Zone:
“Our governor, and I have to say this, our governor wants to be the only person left standing in government,” Mr. Bruno told a crowd of some 1,100 people at the Midtown Sheraton. He mentioned Mr. Spitzer’s salty exchange in January with Senator James Tedisco, when the governor described himself as a “steamroller,” preceded by a profanity.
Mr. Bruno did not use the full profanity himself, but said Mr. Spitzer “is proud of that, proud of it. Well, he’s right about the first part.”
There was scattered laughter among the crowd, and then Mr. Bruno went on to talk about how the “steamroller ran out of steam” during budget negotiations, how the governor’s poll numbers dipped, how his priorities are wrong because he “wants to talk about campaign finance reform, wants to talk about allowing gay marriages.”
“When this governor says that this Republican majority will not survive, he said it in November, and we are here, he said it in January, and we are here, he said it last month and we are here,” Mr. Bruno added, wrapping up his speech. “He says it every other day because he likes to hear himself talk.”
Scattered laughter is all you are going to get out of that type of talk, even on your hometurf. The audience might have thought you a little out of touch when you proclaim the long life of the Republican majority, especially since the GOP state Senators are being picked off one by one.
As for profanities, Eliot may make use of them with his language but it is your tenure sir that is most profane. The corruption stinks to high hell and that is probably why federal investigators are on your tail. The Governor likes to talk because it precedes his actions. Achieving equality for all New Yorkers is not a laughing matter, it is a commendable one. You should only hope that you are a fraction of the man that Governor Spitzer is.
