lohud.com

Sponsored by:

Albany Watch

Insights and tidbits from the state Capitol

Signal about Roger Stone?

August
31





   Maybe this should have been a signal.

   When Roger Stone, the political operative who was forced to quit as a consultant to Senate Republicans after questions were raised about an abusive phone call to Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s father, addressed the senators in a closed-door meeting in June, one lawmaker with a front-row seat noticed his fly was unzipped.

    That didn’t seem to slow him down as he delivered an aggressive, impressive outline of how the then-beleaguered GOP could strike back against Spitzer.

  But maybe it showed sometimes he didn’t do what most people are expected to do.

    

This entry was posted on Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 12:00 pm by Jay Gallagher.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Share and Enjoy: | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Advertisement

Leave a Reply

About this blog
A behind-the-scenes look at state government and politics from the Capitol bureau of Gannett News Service.
Subscribe
Live From Albany Podcast | Get iTunes

Get blog updates via email:

About the authors
Jay GallagherJay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0.
Cara MatthewsCara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them.

Other recent entries

Live From Albany Podcasts


Introducing LoHud Podcasts

More LoHud Podcasts
Recently Updated LoHud Blogs
Monthly Archives