If you knew a lot of dirt on a prominent Republican, but

[NewJeffCT]

couldn't prove it with any sort of "gotcha" type tapes/video or similar, what would you do? I'm not saying I do, but if somebody did.

For note, this is a prominent local Republican in Connecticut (not anybody national, sorry) that recently made some news due to an ethical violation (what's new, it's a Republican, right?)

However, the dirt on this Republican is much more serious than using his prior state office for political purposes.

[KitchenWitch]

1. I would say document until you do have enough dirt to prove it.

[NewJeffCT]

2. Unfortunately

they have not really been in contact for a few years - it was mostly from the mid 90s to 2004-05 or so.

[KitchenWitch]

3. Sorry to hear that.

Maybe someone else will nail them that has access to the right kinds of proof.

[NewJeffCT]

5. maybe

he'd make Eliot Spitzer look like a nun in comparison.

[Aristus]

4. Nah. Spread the rumour. Make it as vicious as possible.

Rumour alone is sufficient proof of guilt. The Republicans taught us that; it's about time we took it out for a test-drive. Fuck them all, anyway; taking the high-road has lost us the last two Presidential elections...

[MrCoffee]

8. I like the cut of your jib...

:thumbsup:

[cloudbase]

6. Drop a line to your local fishwrapper's investigative reporter

and let them use their sources to find the evidence.

[NewJeffCT]

7. could try that

but who knows if that would work.

[Orsino]

16. ...or to as many journamalistic-type outlets as possible.

Someone will find it.

And then sit on it, or let it get drowned out by the gotcha of the week.

[pitohui]

9. how prominent?

i had some dirt on david duke and ultimately i did turn it over to the fbi, altho i felt they should have had this information years earlier, and i actually think they did -- he was prosecuted for far, far, FAR less than he did and far, far, FAR less than what the feds could easily prove -- i've always felt he paid off the right people or had help from hidden racists in high office -- we're talking a dude who didn't pay income tax for 20 years and yet i witnessed him betting $500 a hand at the gaming table and so did everybody else in a two-state area over a period of many years

for some years now i've had an ethical dilemma concerning a "friend," well, really a gambling contact, who is also a prominent politician in his state, i won't say the office or the state, just will say that it isn't louisiana or mississippi, or else the natural course of events would have outed him a long time before now

the short story is the guy's GOP and on the extremist side of the GOP at that, the classic "drown the gov't in the bathtub" type, he's completely one of the bad guys, on the other hand, his activities are not felonies, they're more in the lines of living a lifestyle that his constituents would fall out of their rockers if they had a clue train -- also there's a gay angle, and i don't like the idea of outing someone as gay and playing that as a gotcha, OTOH, the argument can be made that he's propping up an entire party that profits from playing straight against gay, so his hypocrisy is pretty huge -- he kind of stalks a friend of mine and at times i've had access to the emails (the politico doesn't know i'm reading and getting a chuckle out of some of these pathetic documents)

it just gives me an icky feeling all around, i don't esp. like reading someone's private mail where they're begging somebody to please please please come back to them and all that yadda yadda, if you have a heart at all, you just feel bad about something like that -- and yet he's soo evil, he tells the guy he married and had kids strictly because it's what you have to do to be a politician in that state, he told him a mean story about his wife's sexual (in)abilities, he's just so not nice on the inside and yet can be so nice to your face


i think if the guy goes any higher, i have to speak up but right now, he's in a district where he ran un-opposed anyway so i figure what's the point of creating chaos in my entire social circle?

but for now i'm doing nothing

[NewJeffCT]

15. Not as prominent as Duke

but, the state's biggest newspaper had a top of the editorial page editorial calling on him to resign over not disclosing an ethical violation in his past. However, it looks like the response from the governor's office is silence, and probably waiting for the story to go away. But, if the paper had a top line editorial on him, he's not exactly small potatoes.

[Redstone]

18. Hey, young lady, it's good to see you around again. Haven't seen any of your posts

in a while, but that could be because I just didn't see them.

Redstone

[datasuspect]

10. use the knowledge for fun and profit

[madinmaryland]

11. Repub in Connecticut??

:wtf: They are some left...

Mayor of Waterbury (Jarjura??)
Chris Shays
Rowland?

[Taverner]

12. Lieberman ...hmmmm

[madinmaryland]

13. You owe me a new keyboard!!!!

:spray:

Schadenfraude??2??

Mr. Pious Sanctimonious gets caught in a Spitzer moment.

:rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

14. Jarjura is a Democrat, but it's not somebody from Waterbury

I think he's a Lieberman style Democrat, but he is still a Dem, even though he ran as an independent.

[Redstone]

17. In Connecticut? All you have to do is wait. The dirt comes out eventually, especially

because almost every politician in the state is so heavily coated with the stuff.

Christ, I thought I know corruption because I lived in Philadelphia, but this state ought to rename itself "Corrupticut."

Redstone