Larry Cunningham takes one of my least favorite people--Eliot Spitzer--to the woodshed in a devastating trip down memory lane:
Eliot Spitzer says he’ll do in the New York City comptroller’s office what he did in the New York State Attorney General’s office. Assuming he is not lying, that would be a very dangerous thing. New York City voters should remember what he did as AG. ...
As AG, Spitzer twisted a Depression-era law called the Martin Act, intended to police bootleggers, into a despotic sword against corporate New York—the “legal equivalent of King Arthur’s Excalibur,” an informed legal analyst wrote.[i] Writers at Forbes summarized the modus operandi: “The hallmark of a Spitzer trophy is victory by intimidation.”[ii] ...
Spitzer brought many down and rattled innocent good citizens. Everyone in New York City should worry that Spitzer will find ways, as he threatens, to radically expand the power of the comptroller to do equally dangerous things in the City. That will include trampling on due process rights and instilling in people fear of out-of-control government officials such he aspires once again to be.
In the gaps between the quoted paragraphs, Cunningham provides a distressing list of amazing abuses by the Luv Guv.
