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  • June 2008

    • Fire Guts Mansion of Texas Governor

      Austin American-Statesman  |  Jun 8, 08 7:30 PM CDT

      Fire Guts Mansion of Texas Governor

      (Newser) - Texas officials are crying arson after a fire ripped through the Texas Governor's Mansion today, the Austin-American Statesman reports. Flames gutted parts of the building and damaged the roof, but destroyed no artifacts, as the building had been emptied for renovations. Gov. Rick Perry and President Bush expressed their grief while state officials vowed to obtain security video and catch the arsonist. More »

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      Texas  • governor  • arson  • fire  • Rick Perry

  • May 2008
  • April 2008

    • Blind Paterson Feeling His Way as NY Governor

      New York Times  |  Apr 21, 08 11:18 AM CDT

      Blind Paterson Feeling His Way as NY Governor

      (Newser) - It takes a lot of extra sweat for New York's legally blind governor to act like a person with 20/20, the New York Times reports. David Paterson spends hours each night listening to recorded staff briefings—and memorizing speeches, since he can't read a teleprompter. And though the veteran politician knows Albany well, he's still learning the layout of the governor's mansion. More »

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      New York  • Eliot Spitzer  • governor  • David Paterson  • blindness  • disability  • Governor David Paterson

    • Spitzer-Like Sex Saga Tapped for TV

      New York Daily News  |  Apr 13, 08 7:53 AM CDT

      Spitzer-Like Sex Saga Tapped for TV

      (Newser) - An Elliot Spitzer-like sex saga is headed to the small screen, reports the New York Daily News. TV's Law & Order has begun casting for an episode that will feature a politician nabbed in a prostitution ring. Meanwhile, life is getting harder for Silda Spitzer, wife of the disgraced former New York governor, who is now coping with devastating health problems suffered by her sister's husband and father-in-law. More »

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      television  • New York  • Eliot Spitzer  • governor  • Law and Order  • Silda Wall Spitzer

  • March 2008

    • Freed Former Ala. Governor Targets Rove

      New York Times  |  Mar 29, 08 7:47 AM CDT

      Freed Former Ala. Governor Targets Rove

      (Newser) - Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, who walked out of a Louisiana federal prison on an appeal bond yesterday, told the New York Times in his first interview that "abuse of power" put him behind bars—and accused Karl Rove of being behind it all. “It’s going to be my quest to encourage Congress to ensure that Karl Rove either testifies, or takes the Fifth,” Siegelman said. More »

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      corruption  • Karl Rove  • governor  • Alabama  • bribery  • Don Siegelman  • federal prison  • Richard Scrushy

    • Feds Indict Puerto Rican Governor in Finance Probe

      Associated Press  |  Mar 27, 08 11:46 AM CDT

      Feds Indict Puerto Rican Governor in Finance Probe

      (Newser) - Puerto Rican Gov.Anibal Acevedo Vila was indicted today on 19 counts, including election fraud and conspiracy to violate federal campaign-finance laws, the AP reports. Vila and 12 associates are accused of breaking rules in financing the 2000 campaign that saw Vila elected the territory's Washington rep. Vila says the charges, and the probe that spawned them, are politically motivated. More »

    • McGreevey Threesome Stories Get Tangled

      Associated Press  |  Mar 18, 08 3:44 AM CDT

      McGreevey Threesome Stories Get Tangled

      (Newser) - Jim McGreevey has backed up his aide's claim that the two were involved in three-way sex with his estranged wife, contradicting her earlier denial. "This happened, this happened in the past, and now we need to move on with our lives," the former New Jersey governor told the AP. The McGreeveys' bitter divorce case is before the courts, and the aide is expected to be called as a witness. More »

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      divorce  • New Jersey  • governor  • Dina Matos McGreevey  • James McGreevy

    • Spitzer: Hooked on Covert Ops

      New York  |  Mar 17, 08 5:05 PM CDT

      Spitzer: Hooked on Covert Ops

      (Newser) - Eliot Spitzer didn't patronize a pricey call girl ring just for the sex, Chris Smith writes in a  provocative New York post-mortem. What really attracted him was the covert op. The silver-spoon-fed Ivy Leaguer was always rebelling against being squeaky clean; as a young prosecutor, he got "hooked on the clandestine" while running stings on the Gambino crime family. More »

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      New York  • Eliot Spitzer  • governor  • prostitution ring  • Gambino crime family  • Joe Bruno  • district attorney

    • Cash Paved Way From Studio to Statehouse

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 17, 08 4:45 PM CDT

      Cash Paved Way From Studio to Statehouse

      (Newser) - Maria Shriver received hundreds of thousands of dollars from NBC after leaving her position as a "Dateline" anchor when her husband became the governor of California, the LA Times reports. Economic statements filed by Schwarzenegger reveal that NBC paid Shriver between $100,000 and $1 million annually from 2004 until she decided not to return to TV news in early 2007. More »

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      California  • NBC  • Arnold Schwarzenegger  • governor  • first lady  • Anna Nicole Smith  • Maria Shriver

    • Another Pol's Wife Stands by Her Man

      ABC News  |  Mar 11, 08 1:14 PM CDT

      Another Pol's Wife Stands by Her Man

      (Newser) - Silda Wall Spitzer, the Harvard-educated lawyer who stood grimly alongside her husband during his somewhat perplexing apology yesterday, joins the ranks of political wives who suffer publicly the sex scandals of their disgraced mates, ABC writes. She follows in the footsteps of Larry Craig's wife, Suzanne; Jim McGreevey's then-wife, Dana: and, of course, Hillary Clinton, an exception in that she didn't share the podium with Bill at his nadir. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • New York  • Eliot Spitzer  • sex scandal  • prostitution  • governor  • prostitution ring  • Silda Wall Spitzer  • Monica Lewinsky  • wife  • James McGreevy

    • Jet-Setting Governor Irks Californians

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 7, 08 7:02 AM CST

      Jet-Setting Governor Irks Californians

      (Newser) - Californians are complaining about a governor who rarely spends a night in the state capital and dirties the air with almost daily commuter flights on a private jet, reports the Los Angeles Times . Arnold Schwarzenegger spends most nights at the family home in Brentwood in southern California. Critics say spending all that time in the air—some three hours a day—undercuts his tough stance on pollution, and suspect it's hurting his focus on politics in Sacramento. More »

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      California  • Arnold Schwarzenegger  • pollution  • governor  • Sacramento  • commuting  • private jet

    • FCC Member Wants Probe of Ala. TV Station

      Broadcasting & Cable  |  Mar 4, 08 4:10 PM CST

      FCC Member Wants Probe of Ala. TV Station

      (Newser) - An FCC commissioner wants to know why an Alabama TV station went off the air just as a "60 Minutes" segment critical of Karl Rove started, Broadcasting & Cable reports. WHNT blamed a “technical difficulty," but Michael Copps said today he wants to find out whether Sunday's blackout of most of a segment about the imprisonment of ex-governor Don Siegelman was a political move. More »