2:13 pm Feb. 20, 20123
After a Times editorial this morning called for a formal investigation into Rep. Michael Grimm, he went on "Good Day New York" to accuse the paper of being an extension of the Democratic Party.
"Look, it's the timing," Grimm said. "The judge just moved up the primary from September to June and they have to get a candidate to run against me and they can't because I've been doing extremely well all year, fighting for Staten Island and Brooklyn, so they want to run a smear campaign to get a candidate to run against me."
The Times has run stories about Grimm appearing to skirt campaign rules and disclosure requirements, including taking an envelope with $5,000 in cash, and of allegedly providing misleading and false statements about his business practices prior to entering Congress.
Grimm said the stories are inaccurate and politically motivated. Grimm didn't respond to detailed questions from the Times about any of the reports.
"I hit the trifecta for the New York Times," Grimm said. "I'm a conservative Republican. I'm an outspoken Catholic and, at the end of the day, one of the things that they also despise are people that are pro-Israel. I'm all three. For them, it's the perfect hat-trick."
As additional proof of the paper's bias, Grimm pointed to the Times story reporting he'd been removed by the Romney campaign as a delegate. It was actually first reported by the Staten Island Advance, a daily paper whose coverage greatly affects voters' perception of the congressman in the district.
Grimm didn't mention the Advance.
GrimmGateTanic trying to get others to board his ship.
But the cost of travel insurance keeps on going up, and the fact that they don't have as many life boats is a problem.
He ship is piloted by that old man of Staten Island Politics Guy Molinari and his vision is not as good s it use to be.
He is supporting Romney the Luddite and that too seems to be a losing cause,
So I say the GOP better keep the GrimmGateTanic at the Staten Island Home Port, because the seas around Staten Island are filled with ICEBERGS and they need a plan "B"
Before there was the "Oracle of Delphi" there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli
VJ Machiavelli
Power to the People who "VOTE"
As usual, VJ Machiavelli's oracle is wrong. Grimm will be reelected easily because the Democrats have nominated a carpetbagger to run against him. There has never been an off-Islander, or someone who took a convenient paper address to run there, who has prevailed for this Congress seat, and those carpetbaggers include Leo Zefferetti, Frank Barbaro, Sal Albanese, Steve Harrison, Robert Straniere and Michael Allegretti.
You see, we Staten Islanders see our home and our life there as unique, and you kind of have to lived there, at least for the past 8 years to run for something like Congress. Murphy hasn't; history shows it will make him a loser, besides the growing running joke about his failed career as a cable TV actor.
http://www.youtube.com/MarkMurphyfromCA
I have news for Jenny Ling Po. I am a lifelong Staten Islander and I am dead set against Rep. Michael Grimm. I have probably lived here longer than she has and if anyone is a carpetbagger it is Grimm, who was brought over here from Queens by his consigliere Guy "Geppetto" Molinari, who believes himself to be some kind of kingmaker. Grimm is under federal investigation, by the FBI and the grand jury in Brooklyn. He accepted a trip to Cyprus from an indicted briber. He has taken a "loan" from a convicted embezzler. His chief fundraiser, Ofer Biton, has been arrested by the federal government. His former health food business had labor violations, including off-the-books payments to workers, and overtime violations. The nude swimming incident in the Sea of Galilee is only the tip of the iceberg. So, compared to that, who the hell cares that Mark Murphy "failed" as an actor. As a politician he couldn't be any worse than Grimm.