Pataki calls for federal probe on tapes

[lovuian]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-22-pataki-tapes_x.htm

Pataki calls for federal probe on tapes
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. George Pataki called for a federal investigation on Monday after transcripts of taped telephone conversations, some involving him and his wife, appeared in a New York City tabloid.
The conversations, all featuring former Pataki patronage dispenser Thomas Doherty, were reported in Monday's New York Post. The newspaper said it received a tape recording of the telephone conversations anonymously
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The conversations range from the mundane — Doherty asking the governor to speak at a funeral and promising to write some "very personal" remarks for him — to the politically blunt. In one exchange, Doherty complains with bursts of profanity to then-Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, a Pataki mentor, about administration commissioners not hiring quickly enough the patronage appointees Doherty has recommended to them.

One conversation features the Republican governor's wife, Libby Pataki, using a barnyard epithet of her own as she complains to Doherty about spending too much time doing minor public events and not getting enough publicity from them.

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Quite the charming couple and handing out patronage where ever they go to their friends!!!

[Nite Owl]

1. Not too smart

that will just keep the story about him in the news.

[chiffon]

2. Kinda kinky...yet interesting....wiretaps on the gov?

[yurbud]

3. Isn't the post a right wing paper? Maybe Pataki aint toeing the line

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[AlCzervik]

5. yes, it's a gop knee capping, Pataki isn't a hard core conservative

and he's thinking of running for president so the republican hit machine squad is trying to take him out early, although i don't think he's got a chance in hell of winning anyway but i think they like to cover all the bases.

[yurbud]

7. not just caning him--McCaining him

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[LiberalFighter]

4. Why a federal investigation?

New York has their own law regarding taping telephone conversations.

[DemoTex]

6. Yumm, delicious scandal!

Legality is moot .. the cat is out of the bag!


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[Paula Sims]

8. It's the first step

They're beginning to eat their own. . .