Would-be governor Tom Suozzi seems to be attempting a bank-shot on the old political pool table in his daily attack on front-runner Eliot Spitzer.
Today, the Nassau County exec cites a report by a private organization that state money targeted for affordable housing was used to finance luxury homes — and says it “rightly faults” the Pataki administration.
Then he does his rhetorical best to carom the blame into Spitzer’s court.
“Where was our crusading Attorney General while this scandal was happening?” thunders a press release from Suozzi, who is estimated by the latest Newsday-NY1 News poll to command a mere 10 percent of the primary vote. “Was he too busy chasing headlines on Wall Street to prevent public funds from being misspent and protect the people who need our help the most?”
Suozzi noted that Spitzer gets big contributions from real-estate magnates.
Comments (7)
Suozzi should have noted that Spitzer not only gets money from real estate magnates, he IS a real estate magnate.
Interesting -- now that the State GOP has coalesced around Faso, ending Suozzi's flirtation with the Republicans, the Nassau County Exec is actually criticizing Pataki (a little).
suozzi is making a mess of a once promising career.
if tom suozzi dosent get enough signatures to get on the sept 12 primary ballot, and force a debat with spitzer, the people of New York will be in a mess, not suozzis career.
Wow, that was the single least witty reply in the history of blogs. please tell me that you don't do press for suozzi.
"the people of new york will be in a mess, not suozzi's career."
Was that the best reply you could come up with? wow. that was almost as bad as "i'm rubber, you are glue."
and by the way, what do you mean IF he doesn't get enough signatures? surely, there is enough support out there for tommyboy to get on the ballot?
surely, the rest of new york knows what kind of trouble they'll be in if he doesn't get on the ballot???
hey truth, hows this for a reply? your an a....le!!!! read between the dots!
Eerie Campaign
Melody: Traditional
Lyrics: Adaptation from standard folk version by Fr. Stephen Foster Crump, S.J.*
LEAD SOLO, TENOR: I HIRED me a MULE. The CRITter done went LAME.
Sing it:
CHOIR: Fifteen hours on the Suozzi campaign . . .
LEAD: She kicked and she screamed like she’d truly gone insane. Hit it.
CHOIR : . . Fifteen hours on the Suozzi campaign.
LEAD: Time WAS I’d PULLED ‘em to the POLLS --
Jews, Italians, Croats, and Poles.
Now mule kicked friends, with iron toe,
From Albany to Buffalo.
BASS BARITONES: Yes, mule kicked friends, with iron toe,
From Albany to Buffalo.
FULL CHOIR: Iron toe! Everybody down.
Kiss dirt! Mule has got The Frown.
Her flying off the handle’s
Like an axe-blade in the brain:
Will we ever get through this eternal campaign?
LEAD: She SAID I spoke exTEMpore -- the TINiest FIB.
On back of rally signs, staff chalked me up a crib.
Those placards faced out. My delivery was fine.
Then the press to my rear caught me reading a line.
FULL CHOIR: “S’this WHAT ya MEAN by ‘OFF duh cuff?”
LEAD: Press got mean and the Mule got rough.
She launched 12 hacks, with iron toe,
From Albany to Buffalo.
SOPRANOS: Yes, launched 12 hacks, with iron toe,
From Albany to Buffalo.
FULL CHOIR: Iron toe! Fourth Estate, beware.
Make tracks! Mule has got The Stare.
And you’ll always know your pals
And your sources ain’t the same
If ya ever reported on Suozzi’s campaign.
LEAD: My DREAM deMANded an arRESTing TV AD,
So, my MULE kicked the JOB to a BRASH auteur LAD.
We spent ALL the campaign CASH that I’d EV-er had.
My MULE was just as PROUD as Jean LUC Godard’s DAD.
The ad was blurry, jumped tres vite.
Press said I looked like frozen meat.
Mule called it great, despite my “lisp.”
It made me sound like Quentin Crisp.
CHOIR, LISPING ALTOS: Mule called it great, despite my “lisp.”
It made me sound like Quentin Crisp.
MINNELLI IMPERSONATOR: Mule called it great, despite his “lisp.”
It made him sound like Quentin Crisp.
LEAD: Duck, mule. Here’s another poll.
Sucks, mule. Fifty in the hole.
FULL CHOIR:: And you’ll always know your pals
And your bosses ain’t the same
If ya ever tried working on Suozzi’s campaign.
LEAD: Suck, mule. Have another malt.
F XXX, mule -- s’really not your fault.
The stars they were against us
But I guess fate blinded me:
Bosses DAMNED-OLE-TOM from HERE to e-TER-nity.
ALTOS: He says stars were against him.
Due to fate, he couldn’t see.
Will he ever put some blame on one Tom Suozzi?
SOPRANOS: Will he ever put some blame on one Tom Suozzi?
FALSETTO CASTRATI: Will she let us put some blame on ole Tom Suozzi??
(Proceeds from reproduction or performance of these lyrics go to The Society of Jesus Fund for Sons of Italian Veterans of the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga.)
* Fr. Crump , a boys choir musicologist, is the author of Fifteen Rears With a Leary Canal: How A Soldier of the Lord Gave the Other Cheek To Those Who Stabbed Him From Behind (Notre Sham: Southeast West Bend, 2005, 669 pages.)