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from Raw Story via Taegan Goddard. And transcripts are said to be available. Like from the New York Post, Pataki’s usual rah-rah screed. I guess this was too good to pass up:
CONVERSATION 5
Doherty later discusses the DMV problem with D’Amato.Doherty: You want to hear this one?
D’Amato: Yeah.
Doherty: He’s a guy from Peekskill. He’s the No. 2 guy at DMV. I go through the whole thing. Why this man is wanted, you know. A big lift?
D’Amato: Did you ask him how the hell he got his job?
Doherty: I laughed at that point. I got off the phone, and everybody in the office said, “What did he say?” I said, “It’s a big lift.” They go, “How did we get here?” … I said, “Thank you.”
D’Amato: Stupid ass.
Doherty: Stupid bastard is what he is.
Ain’t that right. Amazing what gets said on the Governor’s phone instead of serious business. Such as the following…
More tales from the potty mouths and the preening mirror:
CONVERSATION 1
First Lady Libby Pataki complains to Pataki aide Thomas Doherty that she’s overworked and not getting enough publicity – compared with Mayor Giuliani’s then-wife, Donna.Doherty: I see you all over [but] I don’t see your picture in the paper. I don’t see you on TV. I don’t hear you on the radio. So what the hell are you doing out there?
Libby Pataki: Exactly. They have me running around for so much damn stuff.
Doherty: Bulls— stuff.
Libby Pataki: Exactly. Take your mothers to day work (sic) [apparently referring to the Take Your Daughters to Work Day program]. I spent seven hours running from here to there, and there was not one sentence … There were pictures of Donna Giuliani all over the papers. It’s not that I’m not photogenic … I said, “George, I’m running around like an idiot. I’d rather be doing major, big events and not be doing all this bulls— crap, so that when I do have to go out six nights in a row, let them get something out of it. I’m not getting paid for this crap. I don’t have to do a damn thing if I don’t want to.”
Nixon must be rolling in his grave. I guess he’s got a contender above ground for taped potty mouth. And Pataki wants a Cabinet post or run for prez? He, d’Amato, his wife and the rest of the clowns taped ought to join the Mafia.
Update [2005-8-22 22:16:28 by blksista]: Link to Newsday article: Pataki wants a Federal probe regarding why and how he was bugged–http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-sttape0823,0,240299.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
Update [2005-8-22 22:16:28 by blksista]: How the tapes got to the Post, via Capitol News 9–http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=145906
Spread this around…this is too good to pass up either. I sure would like to see the rest of the transcripts. Maybe Jimmy Hoffa’s whereabouts will surface.
hahaha..loose lips sink ships and all that. Boy what a pissy ass whiny ahhhh person she is.
This may not be groundbreaking stuff or earth shattering news
BUT (<<<Note the big but)<p>
it sure is usefull to keep quotes like this handy for any future elections. Are there any more phone conversations that were released? It would be well wroth it to stash them all here in this diary.
Nice catch!
See the Post article.
Of course, they did not publish them all, and the upstate TV station reports that they were delivered in a cardboard box to the Post, who then leaked them.
Which makes me think that these were more sanitized than the rest and had more expletives than Pataki, his wife or d’Amato would have stood.
However…
There is really nothing in these tapes (as printed) that seems shocking or new. We already know Albany is a cesspool, we already knew that Pataki and his people had foul mouths (see the internal e-mails about Eriegate, printed earlier this year by the Syracuse Post-Standard), and we already knew that “patronage” is Pataki’s middle name.
So… big deal.
This seems to me like a disgruntled GOP staffer who is angry at the prospect of Pataki running for president and thus siphoning away New York GOP money from the state party, which is in a lot of trouble, as we all know. That’s my guess. There is certainly no love lost between the Pataki faction and the rank-and-filers in the state GOP, or even the GOP leadership in the Legislature.