John Spencer, weapons-grade wingnut, running for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat.
Unlike Clinton’s former adversary, Jeannine Pirro, Spencer openly criticized his opponent. “I think she’s very angry and it’s a shame that her and some of her liberal Democratic colleagues in the senate seem to have so much…hatred toward the administration,� he said.
And clearly we don’t want someone with an anger problem to hold such an important office. Meanwhile, back in the jungle:
Amicone keeps civil tongue on Spencer comments
By PHIL REISMAN
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: July 3, 2005)
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Spencer slammed Amicone for the way he handled the Petrone scandal. He called his once trusted protege a “nitwit,” and a “knucklehead,” who didn’t understand the meaning of loyalty. The mayor, he said, was like a deer caught in headlights. He used other colorful imagery that cannot be printed in a family newspaper.Almost immediately after that outburst appeared in this column, Amicone canned Spring-Spencer* in an e-mail.
Then Spencer went ballistic again. This time he called Amicone a liar who had, in effect, handed control of the city over to this newspaper. Amicone, he said, had “crossed over to the dark side.”
Whether he is aligned with the forces of evil or not, Amicone has consistently passed on any opportunity to throw gasoline on the fire. Asked last week if he was taken aback by the level of Spencerian rage, he answered, “Yes and no,” but refrained from name-calling.
“We had increasingly disagreed in personal and private conversations,” he said.
*Kathy Spring-Spencer is not only John Spencer’s second wife and former $145,000-year chief of staff, but also his former mistress, with whom he secretly fathered two children while married to his first wife.
[Thanks to Raboof, in comments, and to Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged.]
