NYers, How did Jeanine Pirro win any election?

[SouthernDem2004]

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050809/D8BS1FB00.html

Now she is going to run against Hillary Clinton for her Senate seat. How does someone with Pirro's issues get elected DA????

[wli]

1. 98% of prisoners in NY are in Republican Senate districts

i.e. "prisonmandering"

[Inland]

2. "Hillary's husband has been impeached. I don't think she's in any position

to bring up husbands".

Let's see. Pirro's husband was convicted, Hillary's wasn't. Pirro's husband wasn't an insanely popular president, Hillary's was.

And best of all, Hillary doesn't have to bring up husbands. Everyone knows who her husband is, and thanks to the blogosphere, everyone will know who Pirro's husband is. She can concentrate on doing her job.

[SouthernDem2004]

4. On the scale o' evil I think Pirro's husband is the winner.

I find it hard to believe Pirro did not know what her husband was doing.

[pk_du]

3. beats me how she wasnt indicted in her husband/bro-in-law case

...she signed the Tax returns too.

http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/0,,id=111928,00.html

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Pirro Brothers Convicted on False Business Deductions Conspiracy

Albert J. Pirro, Jr., and Anthony G. Pirro were sentenced on November 1, 2000 to 29 and 37 months imprisonment, respectively, to be followed by 36 and 24 months supervised release, respectively.

Albert Pirro, an attorney, and his brother Anthony Pirro, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and tax preparer, both of Westchester County, New York, were convicted after a six-week trial on tax fraud charges stemming from approximately $1.2 million of Albert Pirro's personal expenses being paid by his companies. Personal expenses paid by Albert Pirro's various companies included lease payments for luxury automobiles for him, his wife, and his mother-in-law; attorney and private investigator services; the salary of one of his family's domestic servants; home improvements, including an electronically controlled gate, exterior painting, and awning installation for his residence in New York; personal furnishings for his vacation home in Florida; and the purchase of a $123,000 Ferrari sportscar.

Albert Pirro used ten companies to pay for his personal expenses. He and his return preparer (Anthony Pirro) caused the income tax returns of each of the companies to be false.

Anthony Pirro, as owner of Anthony G. Pirro, CPA, P.C., caused his company to pay for numerous personal expenses, including health club dues, medical bills, jewelry for his wife, and campaign contributions. Because of the personal expenses being paid by the company and being deducted as legitimate business expenses, the accounting firm's corporate income tax returns understated taxable income and thus were false.

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[zalinda]

5. She doesn't have a chance in hell to win

Hillary will win in a walk. The only problem would be if Hillary decided to run for President.

zalinda