By Jim Willis on Dec 5, 2007 in Energy, Gov Eliot Spitzer | 4 Comments
Eliot “The Don” Spitzer is in desperate need of a publicity win after trying to ram through drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens and then attempting to tax your Internet purchases. He’s got himself a new pet cause–shutting down the two nuclear reactors that sit along the Hudson River known as the Indian Point Energy Center. [...]
By Jim Willis on Nov 15, 2007 in Gov Eliot Spitzer, Government & Politics, Taxes & Spending | 3 Comments
Eliot “The Don” Spitzer is at it again. He thinks the money you make does not belong to you–it belongs to him! And he aims to get every last penny of it. Here’s a nice little tidbit from The New York Sun:
New Yorkers going Christmas shopping online at Amazon.com will find an 8.375% surprise at [...]
By Jim Willis on Nov 14, 2007 in Gov Eliot Spitzer, Government & Politics | 2 Comments
This morning’s Press & Sun-Bulletin bring us this glorious news:
With a new poll showing his popularity plummeting, Gov. Eliot Spitzer today will drop his controversial policy to allow illegal immigrants to obtain drivers’ licenses, a Spitzer spokeswoman confirmed late Tuesday.
The retreat comes as Spitzer will meet this morning in Washington D.C. with New York’s congressional [...]
By Jim Willis on Nov 2, 2007 in Gov Eliot Spitzer, Government & Politics | 0 Comments
From a recent article in the Press & Sun-Bulletin, published Nov. 1, 2007, titled “Spitzer shakes up his administration“:
Spitzer is also promoting former Newsday capitol bureau chief Errol Cockfield Jr. to press secretary. Cockfield left the Long Island newspaper this year to be the spokesman for the Empire State Development Corp., part of state government. [...]
By Jim Willis on Oct 5, 2007 in Gov Eliot Spitzer, Government & Politics | 5 Comments
It always seemed to me when Eliot Spitzer was Attorney General he would target a particular legitimate business enterprise (one with lots of money), make noise about some technical violation of the law, then that business would pay money to the state and it would all disappear quietly. That, my friends, is called a “shake [...]