Republicans eating Republicans!!

[madinmaryland]

"D'Amato and Weld Locked in G.O.P. Feud"

..snip

For the last few months, William F. Weld's bid to become governor of New York has had a sharp thorn in its side: the outspoken opposition of the onetime kingmaker of state Republican politics, former Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, who has said that Mr. Weld is "without any real experience" in New York.

Yesterday, Mr. Weld struck back in force, telling how their feud dated at least to a 1996 encounter in which Mr. D'Amato gave him $750,000 in donations for his Senate campaign that year against John Kerry of Massachusetts. The donations, according to Mr. Weld, came with an expletive-laced warning: that Mr. Weld distance himself from Robert S. Mueller III, who as a Justice Department official oversaw a federal fraud investigation of Mr. D'Amato's brother, Armand, in the early 1990's.

"If I ever see that expletive Mueller at an expletive fund-raiser, I'm going to get every expletive dollar of this back out of your hide," Mr. Weld, a former Massachusetts governor, quoted Mr. D'Amato as saying. Mr. Mueller, a friend of Mr. Weld's, has been the director of the F.B.I. since 2001.

Mr. D'Amato yesterday vigorously denied that the encounter had taken place and said he had not even met Mr. Weld until recently, at a Feb. 23 fund-raiser for Representative Vito J. Fossella. But newspaper articles indicate that Mr. D'Amato introduced Mr. Weld at a 1996 Republican fund-raiser in Washington.

The clash exposed in the most bare-knuckled form the searing divisions that have afflicted state Republicans as they seek to find credible candidates to run for governor and to challenge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in November.

..snip

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/nyregion/24repubs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The best thing for Hillary is to have "pothole Al" back in the spot light!!!

[Atman]

1. Bill Weld is the only Republican I ever voted for

But he was running against Crazy John Silber at the time. It was a Devil or The Deep Blue Sea choice. But in actuality, Weld turned out to be a pretty good Massachusetts governor.

[rodeodance]

2. yuk, NOT tasty morsels in my book! but to each his/her own.

[Virginia Dare]

3. D'Amato has to be one of the most corrupt politicians of our time EOM

[madinmaryland]

5. Hence the nickname "Pothole Al"

The stuff he did, made even New Yorkers blush.

[MADem]

6. He is alledged to have been the model for the politician on

'Sex and the City' who wanted to indulge in water sports with Carrie. Alphonse dated Candace Bushnell, the author of that book/series, for a time. He was VERY QUICK to deny any connection between that character and himself--got in a bit of a huff about it, too!

[Botany]

7. Not any more Halliburton & Cheney have kicked up a notch

Iraq: "Biggest Corruption Scandal in History" - Newsweek.

And there is much more to come, especially on the little-noticed issue of contracting in Iraq, which the watchdog group Transparency International last year warned could become "the biggest corruption scandal in history." The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction is expected to issue a harshly critical report in May concluding that the CPA did not have disciplined contracting procedures in place, according to several people involved in drafting the report. If the Democrats manage to get control of the House later this year, it's all going to come in an avalanche of subpoenas and new investigations. Not that the Republicans have been entirely sitting on their hands. When Rep. Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican, agreed to subpoena records of funds transmitted to Iraq, his House Government Reform Subcommittee learned that nearly $12 billion in U.S. currency was shipped to Iraq from the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, much of it with little accountability.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11965317/site/newsweek

All from the family values party.

[Virginia Dare]

8. Agreed--goes without saying Cheney is in a class by himself... EOM

[gasperc]

4. that's gross

[calico1]

9. I thought D'Amato had crawled back under

the rock he came from. He is one of the biggest scumbags in politics.