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Madam In Eliot Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Running For Governor
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Albany, NY, United States (AHN) – A madam who was imprisoned for her role in the prostitution scandal that forced Eliot Spitzer to resign is running to as governor of New York.
Kristin Davis launched her campaign on Monday at the historic Roosevelt Hotel on a platform to legalize, regulate and tax the use of marijuana and prostitution, and to allow gays to marry.
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Spitzer, dubbed the “Sheriff of Wall Street,” resigned in March 2008 after he was identified by a federal wiretap as Client no. 9 of a prostitution ring known as the Emperors Club VIP. Investigators said the first-term governor paid a prostitute named Kirsten to travel from New York to Washington, where they spent the night in the Mayflower Hotel.
The federal probe also implicated Davis, who spent four months at Riker’s Island for promoting prostitution.

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But the real reason, many say, that Lopez is safe, is because he matters so little. Kiss the ring, if you have to. Show up at Cono’s when he asks. There is no point in looking for a new county leader. In 2010, county leaders are leaders in title only.
Lopez does not like to talk about himself. To him, his work in the community and in elections says enough. Sure, there are questions, enemies. He feels no need to answer them or justify what he does.
“You don’t say nothing,” he said. “If someone says your mother is a prostitute, you get mad, and you get mad. Then they say it, and the best thing to do is, if you explain it away people will think maybe she is. So you’ve got to bite your tongue and live with it. What do I do?” His voice started to rise: “I am not corrupt. Please believe me, I am not corrupt. I am not the establishment. I am against it. You have to write about it. But you won’t.”

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Which prompts the question: Why does the party bus have to even stop at one of these no-fun bars anyway? There are companies that provide such services for bachelor parties and such like, complete with alcohol, sound system, and, in some cases, a stripper pole. If the usual conveyance seems too suburban for the bright young things, maybe a crafty indie promoter can trick one out like a fashionable lounge (as the Rusty Knot bus “runs on irony as much as diesel,” they should probably get some of that irony stuff too). Then the cognoscenti can shotgun and pound windows to their hearts’ content all night long, without ever coming to rest to be reminded that in New York City, fun is something for which you have to make special arrangements.

See the full article from “Village Voice (blog)”

Trying to derive maximum value from its Olympic bliss, NBC previewed “The Marriage Ref” Sunday to draft off the Vancouver closing ceremonies. The resulting half-hour offered a breezy, inexpensive approach to comedy that brought to mind the panel shows of yesteryear. The concept is helpfully simple-minded essentially, allowing celebrities to riff on the stupid little fights married couples engage in. It all worked well enough thanks largely to the presence of Alec Baldwin, who if NBC wants “Ref” to stay on the court ought to become the equivalent of Paul Lynde’s center-square on “The Hollywood Squares.”
It hardly felt like an accident that these initial squabbles were both exaggerated, with the scales of justice obviously tipped toward the wives. One guy wanted to display his stuffed dog in the living room, while the other sought to convince his spouse to install a stripper pole in the bedroom.

See the full article from “Variety”

I could forgive the nonsensical baseball metaphor in the credits (it should really be boxing or something; baseball doesn’t have referees, and that game is 9 on 9, not one on one). I could even forgive the frequently noted issue with someone like Alec Baldwin — the most bitterly divorced man in the world — giving marital advice. But the whole show is like some bad ’70s game show throwback, with random celebrities delivering their pre-scripted one liners regarding how wacky marriage can be, peppered with frequent cuts to Jerry Seinfeld laughing hysterically at his corny friend (and Marriage Ref host) Tom Papa’s pole dancing routines. And don’t even get me started on the awkward Today show cross promo with Natalie Morales on hand to pretend like she’d Googled stripper aerobics.

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NBC follows Olympics with ‘Marriage Ref,’ ‘Parenthood’
“You Googled my sperm,” a character on “Parenthood” says.
Sometimes you learn a lot from a show by just a line of dialogue.
You’ve probably already learned that all those Olympic promotional spots for “The Marriage Ref” were in support of a trifle. Celebrities sit around and chat about a couple’s problems. It’s a show from Jerry Seinfeld, and this one really is about nothing.
In last night’s premiere, the couples’ arguments were far-fetched. One husband wanted to keep his creepy stuffed dog over his wife’s objections. Another husband longed to install a stripper’s pole in the bedroom; that way his wife could “exercise.” The celebrities (Alec Baldwin, Kelly Ripa and Seinfeld) joked about the situations, then supported each wife. Ho-hum.
NBC cut off the Olympics’ Closing Ceremony to accommodate this show? What a waste. “The Marriage Ref” moves to its regular slot, 10 p.m. Thursday, this week.

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In the show’s sneak-peek pilot, Seinfeld and a celebrity panel comprised of Alec Baldwin and Kelly Ripa analyzed two of the most bizarre couples’ arguments ever to make it to national television: whether a man should keep his deceased dog after a “resurrection” at the taxidermist, and whether a long-married couple should install a stripper pole in their living room.
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The “American Idol”-style banter from the judges was given a whiff of credibility by the lovely Natalie Morales of NBC News, who spouted related statistics (such as, “One thousand Americans have had their pet stuffed” and “Stripper-pole exercise can burn many calories”). A weird appearance by the now-elderly sportscaster Marv Albert — who gave a play-by-play of the couples’ knockout punches — was only interesting if you were old enough to remember Marv’s own infamous sex scandal.

See the full article from “Momlogic.com”

Yes, a half-hour show of people arguing over a stuffed dog or a stripper pole in the bedroom (the other argument that was mediated in the premiere… I’m guessing the hour-long episodes will contain four couples’ disputes) might get tired. But I quickly got sick of seeing the poorly-edited observations of Alec, Kelly, and Jerry; it just felt like they were all stretching to make lame jokes about these silly arguments. And the cutaways to see the panelists’ reactions to the couples and each others’ jokes was just painful to watch. The show somehow made three very funny people look unfunny and judgmental, and that’s a crime of comedy.
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Seinfeld’s point in bringing this show to life is that these are the kinds of arguments every couple has, and wouldn’t it be nice if everyone had a ref like Tom Papa to listen to the arguments and give a decision. But in order to make these arguments TV-friendly, we’re not seeing everyday disputes li …

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Paterson said some Democrats who called for his resignation last week have reconsidered after a meeting of black leaders Saturday in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood, Paterson’s longtime power base.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating whether Paterson and his state police security detail illegally contacted a woman about an alleged domestic disturbance involving one of the governor’s top aides.
Paterson said abandoning his campaign frees him to govern and address a deficit of more than $8 billion in the upcoming state budget.
“I can make decisions and I won’t have to hear a robotic response from the Legislature that ‘he’s doing this for politics, he’s doing this to get his poll numbers up, he’s running against the Legislature because we’re more unpopular than he is,’” Paterson said.
Paterson was lieutenant governor when he succeeded Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in a prostitution scandal. He has less than a year left in his term.

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Monday, Mar 1, 2010 @09:07am CST
(New York, NY) — The Manhattan madam involved in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal is announcing her candidacy for governor of New York today.
Kristin Davis wants to run as an independent candidate in the 2010 race.
She’s expected to announce her intention to petition her way onto the ballot during a press conference later this morning at the historic Roosevelt Hotel on Madison Avenue.
Davis says if she were elected to the state’s top seat, she’d push for legalizing, regulating, and taxing prostitution and marijuana in an effort to generate more revenue for the state.
She’s also a big supporter of gay marriage.
Davis is best known as the Manhattan madam who supplied call girls to Eliot Spitzer when he was attorney general and governor.

See the full article from “MyStateline.com”