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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 02:53 PM
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For next Attorney General: Elliot Spitzer
I know he's shortlisted but MAN I WANT THIS GUY IN CHARGE!!!

NY DU'ers, your AG has fans as far as CA...
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sir_arms_50 Donating Member (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 02:54 PM
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1. excellent idea!
+1 on that
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pk_du Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:24 PM
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20. These are all great ideas BUT.
I just want someone that will make sure Rove does the Perp-walk for the Plame case.
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ciaobox Donating Member (796 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 02:55 PM
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2. here here
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 02:59 PM
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:00 PM
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5. Um...are you saying insurance companies aren't reaming us
What Pfizer stuff are you taking?
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ProfessorPlum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:09 PM
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7. You are funny
Please tell us more about how the poor insurance companies are the victims. Also, please be sure to include lots of spelling and grammar errors.
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ProfessorPlum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:15 PM
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12. Come on, you can make it your 39th post!
Welcome to DU, by the way.
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mazzarro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:12 PM
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9. I'll take WallStreet Journal's screech about him with a big dose of
salt. WSJ, IMO, has never been an advocate of consumer issues.
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Hong Kong Cavalier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:13 PM
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10. Oh No!!!
You poor insurance companies!

:nopity:
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:14 PM
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11. father said his biggest regret was getting in insurance industry
Nothing but greed he said..
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:17 PM
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17. Gee. Sorry he ruined your kick back schemes
Does that mean your company will have to engage in honest bidding for insurance business?

My codolences.
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efront Donating Member (77 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 02:59 PM
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4. Jennifer Granholm for me***
nm
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:04 PM
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6. I second that
He is the best AG I have seen in years....he has balls.
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ProfessorPlum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:11 PM
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8. I second that wholeheartedly
Spitzer has really shown he is unafraid of seeking true justice and enforcing rules, something so rare in the chummy world of government/corporation collusion these days.
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:15 PM
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13. Edit - prev. post was inaccurate. Still support spitzer.
Edited on Tue Nov-02-04 03:18 PM by DireStrike
Hevesi is the one who wrote to Sinclair, not Spitzer.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:16 PM
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14. Absolutely a great idea
Clean the Kleptocrats out of the corporations.
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dolstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:16 PM
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15. I think it may be Eric Holder instead
For one thing, if Spitzer is appointed AG, then Chuck Schumer will run for governor of New York, which may result in Rudy Giuliani or George Pataki running for Chuck's senate seat.

Second, it is important that an African American be appointed to an important cabinet position. Appointing an African American to run the Department of Justice would be a very significant reward to one of the most loyal Democratic constituencies. And Holder is certainly qualified for the job, having served as deputy AG under Clinton.

Don't get me wrong, I think Spitzer would be a great AG. But there are some downsides.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:23 PM
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19. good choice - I like Dennis Archer for AG as well
See my post below. I've been disappointed in DU over the past several months for the lack of minorities in the near daily "pick Kerry's cabinet" threads.

After Bill Clinton bringing us a 'Cabinet that looks like America' and Bush (for all his faults) having some high profile non-white male advisors in Condi Rice, Colin Powell & Alberto Gonzalez, Kerry would get REAMED if he had an all white male cabinet.
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ithacan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:17 PM
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16. NO!!!
we need him here in NY to run for governor!
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:18 PM
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18. No way - I want Spitzer as governor of NY
My choice is Dennis Archer, former mayor of Detroit & the first African American to head up the Bar Association.
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