Wednesday’s Briefing: Spitzer’s Scandal Widens

by Contributor | July 16, 2008 12:25 pm

For political reporters, Eliot Spitzer’s politically fatal sex scandal is the gift that keeps giving.  In the dead of the post-legislative season, there’s something to write about, and it’s about sex, money and tragedy.

As the criminal investigation of Eliot Spitzer’s paid sex life continues, some new details are out.  He used campaign donors’ cash to rent two hotel rooms[1] in Washington, DC at $400 a night.  The hotel is the same one where he trysted the night away with a high-dollar hooker.  The two hotel rooms are listed as “fundraising expenses”[2], and the Spitzer campaign says the spending’s legit.

Elsewhere:

• Joe Bruno picks his “get out of Albany” date.[3]
• A list of the big folks funding Gov. Paterson[4].
• The Attorney General’s pension fraud probe wides again, this time to 200 professionals on public payrolls[5].
• Some groups want birds to be the loudest thing you hear[6] on some Adirondack lakes.

Follow The Money:

• Lawmakers want more home heating aid for the poor[7].
• That’s because the cost of winter heat will jump[8] as much as $1,500 this year.
• Soup kitchen use is way up[9].
• That nine-tenths of a penny you get charged for each gallon of gas?  It adds up.  Way up[10].

Apropos Of Not Very Much:

• “And the lion will lie down with the lamb…”[11]*
• You mean skinny people don’t attack the Chinese buffet[12] with both hands and both feet?
• Sing it with me: “If I had a million dollars (If I had a million dollars), I’d pay my bail (I’d paaaaay my bail).[13]“
• I never liked the idea of “going Dutch”[14] anyway.

And Finally:

• Skydiver’s leg falls off in mid-air[15].

What did we miss?  Drop it in the comments.

[The Briefing is a slightly snide roundup of news from around the state that we wouldn’t be covering any other way.  It’s neither straight news nor commentary.  It’s just a little different, is all.]

*Though we often think of the Bible phrase as “the lion shall lie down with the lamb”, it’s actually very different.  Here’s the exact Bible citation[16].

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