Pirro's Jab at the Assembly Infuriates State Democrats

[Judi Lynn]

Pirro's Jab at the Assembly Infuriates State Democrats

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Published: October 20, 2005
Democrats reacted furiously yesterday to an apparent suggestion by Jeanine F. Pirro, who is seeking to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton next year, that their party coddles murderers and child molesters. But Ms. Pirro and her advisers immediately accused Democrats of misrepresenting her remarks.

Ms. Pirro made the comments at a Republican Party reception in Elmira, N.Y., on Tuesday, as she criticized the Democrat-led State Assembly for refusing to adopt legislation that would allow the state to confine violent sex offenders in mental hospitals after they served criminal sentences.

"That's a difference between Democrats and Republicans - we don't want them next door molesting children and murdering women," Ms. Pirro, the Westchester County prosecutor, said, according to The Star-Gazette of Elmira.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/nyregion/metrocampaigns/20pirro.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1129800052-xp9YiSVH1qixydnKYTyzNg

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. What an incredibly ignorant woman.

I bet her coffee clutches are a laugh a minute.

[Raine]

2. TOTALLY shameless

this breed of rethug. x(

[annabanana]

3. worst case of "foot in mouth" disease

I have ever seen. She is really a walking blunder.

[truthisfreedom]

4. wow, and it looks like it would fit pretty easily!

maybe both! 8^)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. More like "foot in face."

Look at that pic. Yikes!

[sandnsea]

5. While Hillary tackles video games

This is classic as to why we lose. Hillary's taking on the evils of video games while this woman is addressing something people actually care about, violent sex offenders. I think most people support life for violent sex offenders, she's suggesting mental hospitals instead of jail, which seems reasonable to me. I don't like the way she made her case either, but she's on the right side of that issue.

[lancdem]

14. Hillary's not going to lose

[NYC Liberal]

21. In fact, she's making her landslide larger by the day.

Last poll I think showed her getting 64% of the vote.

[sandnsea]

25. Hillary won't lose

True, but it's still an example of the difference in the parties. and what's important and what's not.

[rppper]

6. ever see "goodfellas"???

remember the part where all the mobsters wives were doing each others nails, mud-packs, etc, etc....she reminds me of one of those that "talked anout beating their children" and wore "stuff that looked like it was thrown together....lots of polyester and double knits"...what is it with right wing ladies and their fixation on eyeliner and pearls(ie=cheap baubles a'la h. meirs)???

sandnsea has a good point though...hillary chasing video games is about as important as the big steroid scandal earlier this year......

[BOSSHOG]

8. Republicans don't want republicans living next door

That's what I'm hearing from ya Ms Pirro. Wow, Hillary's gonna have her hands full with such an intellect as you.

[calico1]

9. Oh just keep shooting your mouth off honey,

The more she does the farther she sticks her foot in it and the better for Hillary.

[rocktivity]

10. You automatically go from being a convict to a looney? That's ridiculous.

Offenders who merit lifetime detainment, whether in jail or a mental hospital, should be sentenced accordingly when they're convicted. It smacks of double jeapoardy.

Sounds like she has a busy day.

:headbang:
rocknation

[rucky]

11. She's the best player on Hillary's re-election team. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

12. Elmira, NY? Not exactly a hotbed of conservatism, I think

I'll bet this went over like a fart in a church.

[trogdor]

19. Ever been in Upstate NY?

It's like Alabama with colder weather. Elmira is a sleepy little upstate burg where people drive rusted-out pickup trucks with bumperstickers saying "My President Is Charlton Heston" and "Rush Is Right" on them.

[Canuckistanian]

20. I live not too far from Upstate NY.

I didn't think it was that red. Hmm, learn something new every day.

[Chovexani]

28. Haha!

That's one of the more apt descriptions of upstate NY I've heard. Outside of the college towns it's freeper central.

[WCGreen]

13. The GOP fosters Child Molesters and runs 'em for office.....

[norml]

15. Pirro has got to be a dodge. I still say Rudy will enter the 06 race.

Even if he looses it would have propaganda value for them.

Running Pirro gives them nothing.

[brooklynite]

22. Running Rudy gets him nothing...

1) He would have to actually campaign, and actually travel upstate, rather than stay in NYC and bathe in the adulation of his post 9/11 record.

2) He could lose, and if so, look damaged in the '08 Presidential.

3) He could win and be stuck in a job he doesn't want (a Jr voice among 100 people, and no executive power to flaunt) AND lose his Presidential campaign window.

[norml]

26. It would do more for his party than it would do for him.

They could build their national 06 election propaganda around that race.

[progressivebydesign]

16. That woman is desicable. She's Bush-league. n/t

[LostinVA]

17. giggle -0- Bush-Legaue!

[Orrin_73]

18. She makes an embarassing ass of herself

each day.
:puke:

[JoFerret]

23. Pirro is a grandstanding showboat

who makes her name by prosecuting and persecuting high profile low level minor sex offenders.(Please do not construe this as support for sex offenders at any level.)

(Her campaign launch was a classic piece of political theater prat fall)

[NorthernSpy]

24. lest anyone forget, here's the big list of Republican child molesters...

Armchairsubversive's GOPer-groper collection:

http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

[tanyev]

27. Yep, that's the list I was looking for.

Someone should send it to Ms. Pirro. You don't want them next door, Ms. Pirro? Maybe you'd prefer having them right there in the house with you.