Pataki calls for federal probe on tapes

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!!!

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

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.

New York has their own law regarding taping telephone conversations.

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


Mac's Hog - Cam Rahn Bay, RVN 1970

They're beginning to eat their own. . .