ALBANY, Aug. 21 — Lawyers representing Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s father, Bernard Spitzer, say a prominent political consultant who has been working for State Senate Republicans threatened the elder Mr. Spitzer this month in an anonymous, invective-laced phone message.
The allegations against the consultant, Roger J. Stone Jr., were laid out in a letter sent Tuesday to Senator George H. Winner Jr., an upstate Republican who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations. A copy of the letter was obtained by The New York Times.
Mr. Stone, a seasoned practitioner of hard-edged politics who worked for Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan and for George W. Bush in the 2000 recount battle, adamantly denied the allegation in an interview, calling it “the ultimate dirty trick.” He asserted that allies of Governor Spitzer may have gained access to a phone in his Manhattan apartment to make the threatening call.
The message, left at Bernard Spitzer’s Manhattan office just before 10 p.m. on Aug. 6, says that Mr. Spitzer, 83, a wealthy real estate developer, would be “compelled by the Senate sergeant at arms” to testify about “shady campaign loans” he made to his son during Eliot Spitzer’s unsuccessful campaign for attorney general in 1994.
Here is the Recording of Voice Mail Message (Strong Language) (mp3) [Click on the mp3 icon]
5 comments:
Oh, how horrible! I hope the criminal is caught. How can someone be that cruel to leave a threatening message like that.
This sounds like pure Republican intimidation from Lott, Thompson, Cheney or Rove.
Typical scare tactics going after the family to hit where the emotion is versus going after intelligent debate.
Hope Spitzer puts a tap/trace on the lines throughout his entire family tree and sources it through his own IT team instead of the Gonzales 'owned' teams-
catch the bastards n nail'em to the wall
6 miles and Mrs X:
This is a desperate attempt by the GOP to intimidate since they have a no win situation in the 2008 race. And I have to agree. I hope that the person is caught for threatening Spitzer's father.
Now we are to believe that someone broke into his apartment to use his phone to make the calls. What is this a Jason Bourne movie. Now I bet his wish he had used a public phone. Republicans are lost without the tricks and crimes done by the master criminal Karl Rove. Did he report a break and entry to the police or was everything just as he left it. He could at lease been a man and go after Spitzer Jr. himself, but Republican cowards are like the Gerbil.
The GOP best know for not remembering, distorting the facts, forgetting the facts.......
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