Money flows from Spitzer

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Money flows from Spitzer



Daily News Exclusive


By DOUGLAS FEIDEN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER



Eliot Spitzer says politics doesn't play any role in deciding what groups get the cash.

State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office has quietly handed out millions of dollars to politically connected organizations that could boost his campaign for governor in 2006.

Tapping funds he's recovered from corporate wrongdoers, his office has steered grants to some 175 community groups that serve key voting blocs in every corner of the state.

The windfall was recouped in the crusades against business fraud that have positioned Spitzer in the lead in the race to succeed Gov. Pataki.

Most of it went to nonprofits that help the poor and needy and serve as proxies for defrauded New Yorkers.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/369435p-314201c.html

[fearnobush]

1. And vote they will, Go Spitz go get em!

[applegrove]

2. So any money that goes in the direction of the "public" is automatically

Democratic?

Wow. The public is democratic!

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. OMG, Spitzer is spending the money on poor people

Who does he think he is? Chavez?

:sarcasm:

[CGrantt57]

5. Who does he think he is? Chavez?

Naah...he's just the next governor of the Empire State.

Go Eliot!

Give 'em hell, buddy!

:bounce:

:woohoo:

[gizmo1979]

4. Give to the poor?

What a novel idea.Why hasn't congress thought of that?