Eliot SpitzerÕs Greatest Tantrums

 

 

 

Gov. Eliot Spitzer to Assemblyman Jim Tedisco

É"Listen, I'm a f - - - ing steamroller, and I'll roll over you and anybody else,"É

 

New York Post, January 31, 2007

 Fredric Dicker

 

Gov. Eliot Spitzer to Sen. Joseph Bruno during legislative talks

ÉÒThis is my room and weÕll play by my rules.ÓÉ

 

Albany Times Union, May 16, 2007

 Jay Jochnowitz

 

 

 

ÒThreatened Senator Bill Larkin saying, ÒI can cut your head off.ÓÓ

Troy Record, July 10, 2007.

 

 

ÉÒAs AG, he threatened John Whitehead, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs, stating, ÒI will be coming after you. You will pay the price.ÓÓ   

                                                                                                           

Wall Street Journal, December 22, 2005.

 

 

ÉÒJohn Whitehead - a former head of Goldman Sachs who now runs the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. - says Spitzer threatened to "come after" him after he wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal last April complaining that the AG was overzealous in his prosecutions.

After the piece appeared, Whitehead said Spitzer personally called him to declare "war."

"It's now a war between us and you've fired the first shot," Whitehead quoted Spitzer as saying. "I will be coming after you. You will pay the price. This is only the beginning and you will pay dearly for what you have done. You will wish you had never written that letter.'"É

 

            News Max

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/24/112035.shtml

Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005 11:16 a.m. EST

 

ÉÒI fully intend to use the capacity of my office to act on this . . . I have a lot of friends in government, and I'm going to organize a boycott of the show.ÓÉ

 

E.S. to Stanger [Hannity show's former producer at WABC ]

First reported by Fred Dicker, NY Post 2000

                                                                                                                                                                           

 

ÉÒEric Stanger, the Hannity show's former producer at WABC and now its director of affiliate relations, said Spitzer was a telephone guest on the Hannity show in 2000 and at first hung up in anger in response to comments made by the conservative-oriented hostÓÉ

 

.. 'Let me tell you something: I fully intend to use the capacity of my office to act on this,'"   Eliot Spitzer to StangerÉ

 

ÉStanger [Hannity show's former producer at WABC ] said Spitzer then threatened to organize a boycott of the Hannity show, saying, "'I have a lot of friends in government, and I'm going to organize a boycott of the show.' And then he hung up.ÓÉ

 

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/blog/archives/2006/01/when_eliot_spit.html

ÔWhen Eliot Spitzer Jumped The SharkÕ

January 03, 2006

 

 

 

Fightin' Words - Spitz Told Me He'd Knock Me Out So I 'Never Get Up': BrunoÓ

ÉALBANY - A furious Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno claimed yesterday that Gov. Spitzer, a self-described political "steamroller," threatened to "knock me down, knock me out" during an angry exchange earlier this yearÉ

Bruno, the state's most powerful Republican who has been at war with Spitzer for nearly two weeks, quoted the governor as threatening during the heated conversation: "I'm going to knock you out. I'm going to knock you down so that you will never get up."

Earlier this year, Spitzer berated Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco (R-Schenectady) in a legislative dispute, saying, "I am a f- - -ing steamroller," who would crush anyone who stands in his wayÉ

FREDRIC U. DICKER and KENNETH LOVETT

The New York Post
July 3, 2007 Tuesday