Roger Stone is a seasoned Republican consultant who has used dirty tricks on his opponents since he began working for Richard Nixon. Now that he is in New York, he has turned his vitriol against our own Governor. Stone left a threatening message on the answering machine of Eliot Spitzer's dad Bernard earlier this month. When he was confronted about it, he claimed that the Democrats must have mimicked his voice to play a trick of their own.....are you kidding me? Is that best defense you've got?
From The New York Times:
The message, left at Bernard Spitzer’s Manhattan office just before 10 p.m. on Aug. 6, says that Mr. Spitzer, 83, a wealthy real estate developer, would be “compelled by the Senate sergeant at arms” to testify about “shady campaign loans” he made to his son during Eliot Spitzer’s unsuccessful campaign for attorney general in 1994.
Mr. Winner’s committee has been holding hearings into a scheme by some of Governor Spitzer’s top aides to use the State Police to embarrass the Senate Republican leader, Joseph L. Bruno. Senate Republicans have said they were considering reviewing Bernard Spitzer’s 1994 loans to his son.
“If you resist this subpoena, you will be arrested and brought to Albany,” the message says, according to a transcript. The message also calls Governor Spitzer a “phony” and a “psycho.”
Bernard Spitzer’s lawyers hired Kroll Associates, the private investigative firm, to trace the message, and their report was included with the letter to Mr. Winner. The firm traced the number that appeared on Mr. Spitzer’s caller identification system, linking it to listings under the name of Mr. Stone’s wife, Nydia.
I'm sorry, but trying to make believe that it was someone else calling from your wife's phone is just too easy to uncover in this day and age. He may have been good at his craft in the 1970s (and even as part of the Bush recount team down in Florida seven years ago) but now it seems he has lost his edge....and is just a plain-old dirty man.
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