Monday, December 01, 2003
It's Good to Have Friends (and a Job; and a Checkbook)
ALBANY: NEW RACING OFFICER IS PATAKI BACKER0 comments
The new security director for the New York Racing Association, which has been the subject of an inquiry into illegal employee activity, contributed $10,000 to Gov. George E. Pataki's political campaign last year. The new director, Kenneth Cook, 53, a former deputy superintendent in the state police, was named the association's director of security starting Dec. 8. The N.Y.R.A., a private nonprofit corporation, holds the state franchise to operate the Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga thoroughbred race tracks. Joseph Conway, a spokesman for Governor Pataki, told The Times Union of Albany that questions about whether Mr. Pataki influenced Mr. Cook's hiring "are absurd and don't merit a response." (AP)
Oh, sure they do, Mr. Conway; you and we can all agree on that. You're just being paid to say they don't. We all know that. And a fine job you're doing, too.
And isn't having a job in George W. Bush's economy a wonderful thing to have?
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