NY Gov: Pre-indicted Candidate

[bigmack]

Saving the time & money of NY voters in that she was already indicted. :ThmbUp:

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Kristin Davis rose to notoriety as the madam who provided New York Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer with the escorts that led to his demise. Davis ended up going to jail for providing a business populated by and for consenting adults.

Now Davis herself is running the Empire State’s top slot in Albany, on a platform this is simple and straightforward in libertarian sanity: She wants to legalize (and tax) marijuana and prostitution. For a state as deep in the red as New York, that’s no joke. She has also proposed liberalizing gaming laws and called for gambling casinos in the Catskills.

I built a multi-million dollar escort service from scratch before pleading guilty to promoting prostitution. Prostitution in New York is estimated to be a $5 Billion a year business. Legalization and a reasonable tax rate could bring $ 1Billion in new revenues to New York State each year. Legalizing Marijuana would reap another $2 Billion a year. Then New York could balance the budget and still cut property and income taxes.
http://biggovernment.com/ngillespie/2010/06/07/reason-tv-madam-turned-ny-gov-candidate-kristin-daviss-platform-is-no-joke/

[ArlJim78]

Great. Hey if the lady from the WWF can run Connecticut, why can't a former madame run New York? Those are probably good backgrounds to have for politics these days (wrestling and prostitution). It's really a lateral move.

[bigmack]

It's really a lateral move.
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[boxcar]

Great. Hey if the lady from the WWF can run Connecticut, why can't a former madame run New York? Those are probably good backgrounds to have for politics these days (wrestling and prostitution). It's really a lateral move.

Exactly what the political arena needs -- more wickedness and evil from other corners. While we're at it, let's legalize child prostitution rings. Realize how much tax revenue could be raised from that!? :rolleyes: Plus the kiddies could be sold a bill of goods about how their immoral activities would contribute toward saving the planet through the generation of more tax revenue. :rolleyes:

Maybe a campaign slogan could read: Selling our Souls to the Devil for the Love of Money. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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[riskman]

Some enterprising venture capitalist might be able to sell the whores who run the Wall Street casinos a proposal to franchise retail window storefront operations in the five boros. The housing bubble created by these slithery reptiles on Wall Street has left many stores in the city bankrupt and vacant. Bloomberg with the NYC council approval might be able to pass a a 5 year tax exemption for new start-ups rent a girl/boy stores. The possibilities are endless.

[BluegrassProf]

...simple and straightforward in libertarian sanity: She wants to legalize (and tax) marijuana and prostitution. For a state as deep in the red as New York, that’s no joke. These are perfectly realistic - and highly profitable - initiatives, both supported by the likes of classic libertarians like Milton Friedman.

Far better places to allocate dwindling resources, and definitely much better places to play the morality card.

[boxcar]

These are perfectly realistic - and highly profitable - initiatives, both supported by the likes of classic libertarians like Milton Friedman.

Far better places to allocate dwindling resources, and definitely much better places to play the morality card.

Have you not read or heard that the "love of money is the root of all evil"? (Rhetorical question. Of course you have.) But you're like so many corrupt politicians today in that you you care not a whit about the long term, devastating effects that downright bad legislation can have on a society. Quick fixes are the order of the day! Band-aid solutions will never go out of vogue, will they? Moral Relativism is always justification for the Ends Justifies the Means agenda. Whatever it takes, let's do it and we'll worry about the effects later. :rolleyes:

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[BluegrassProf]

You're right. Libertarians are renowned for their terrible, corrupting, short-sighted policy.

Speaking of strict conservatism and drug policy, as cited on another thread:

Milton Friedman - one of the great intellects of our time. :ThmbUp:

Might be a bit OT, but I show this episode of America's Drug Forum in various policing courses (oftentimes much to the dismay of jacked-up newbs...reality is sometimes a tough pill to swallow):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyystXOfDqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37-zCyI6rmk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZNeZUROVM0&feature=related
I recommend taking a look. Perhaps we're only sorta conservative, when it fits our moral bent. :ThmbUp:

Time to run for office...

[boxcar]

You're right. Libertarians are renowned for their terrible, corrupting, short-sighted policy.

Speaking of strict conservatism and drug policy, as cited on another thread:


I recommend taking a look. Perhaps we're only sorta conservative, when it fits our moral bent. :ThmbUp:

Time to run for office...

You have a mouse in your pocket? "We're", uh? :) But before using the "we" word (in any form), you should understand that I look at the world through the prism of the bible. I'm a Christian first then everything else secondly. I happen to subscribe to most conservative values because these values more closely align with biblical values. This will often (and "often" is the right term here) put me in hot water with my conservative "friends" because, in the final analysis, we can take our mutually shared conservative values only so far. After that point, we diverge -- just as sharply as I would with a liberal/progressive/socialist...whatever. The only difference is that with the liberal that divergence comes a lot sooner rather than later.

Most non-Christian conservatives view America's problems as being political-economic in nature. So, they try to come up with strictly political-economic solutions. (But this is analogous to treating a malignant tumor with a band aid!) As a Christian, however, I see America's problems as being moral/spiritual in nature and the political and economic crises as mere symptoms of this deeper problem. Ditto, for that matter, for all the chaos and strife in the world. The world's moral/spiritual problems have ultimately always found their expressions through through politics and economies, primarily.

As I quoted recently from Proverbs in the OT, "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people". America has fallen from grace because it is in steep moral decline -- and for no other reason! Non-Christians, of course, who view the world through very different glasses will always try to justify sinful actions in various ways and with clever arguments...and this is what Friedman does with the drug problem. In this regard, therefore, non-believing Liberals and Conservatives alike share quite a bit of common ground. At the end of the day, therefore, Christians really have only each other in the Lord and, of course, Christ himself. I know precisely where I stand with respect to the world and its system. As the Good Book also says, the citizenship of a Christian is not in this world (Php 3.20).

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[Robert Goren]

Pot will eventually be legalized and taxed. Hookers are a harder sell. Gambling only works if you are the only one in the area in it. NY is too late to the game. All it will do is kill off all the other area casinos and nobody will reap the benefits. JMO

PS If they legalize pot I hope the put the restrictions on where you can smoke it as cigarettes.. It raises hell with my sinuses.

[kenwoodall2]

She just wants to go from being a small time illegal whore to a big time legit one- Politician! Even Huckabee grinned when asked if the offered a job in ARK to stop a candidate!