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</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/roger-stone-aide/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/roger-stone-aide/</a></div><div></div><div>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/nyregion/manhattan-madam-grand-jury-russia.html</div><div>
</div><div><div class="css-18sbwfn StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 19px; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" display="display" flex="flex" height="height" px="px" width="width" color="color" rgb="rgb"><div class="css-1h6whtw" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px calc((100% - 630px) / 2); padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;"><p class="css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.6rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, " times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px" max-width="max-width"> woman who once ran an upscale New York City escort service will appear on Friday before a federal grand jury that is hearing evidence in the wide-ranging inquiry into ties between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 election campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter.<p class="css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.6rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, " times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px" max-width="max-width">The woman, Kristin M. Davis, <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/nyregion/russia-investigation-davis-mueller-escort.html" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">was interviewed last week by officials from</a>the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is looking into the Trump campaign’s links to Russian operatives. While it remains unclear what interest Mr. Mueller and his prosecutors have in Ms. Davis, it is unusual for an interview to be followed so closely by the more formal step of a grand jury appearance, suggesting that investigators are eager to get her testimony on the record.<p class="css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.6rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, " times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px" max-width="max-width">One possible line of inquiry is Ms. Davis’s longstanding connections to Roger J. Stone Jr., a veteran political consultant and Trump adviser <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/us/politics/roger-stone-andrew-miller-subpoenaed-trump.html" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">who has himself become a central subject in the Russia probe</a>. Mr. Stone, a self-described “dirty trickster” whose career in politics reaches back to the Nixon administration, was in contact before the election with <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/politics/guccifer-russia-mueller.html" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">Guccifer 2.0</a>, an online avatar that Mr. Mueller’s team has said <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/us/politics/mueller-indictment-russian-intelligence-hacking.html" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">Russian military intelligence officers controlled</a>. Guccifer 2.0 was instrumental in helping WikiLeaks publish stolen emails and other campaign documents that proved damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid and to the Democratic Party.<p class="css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.6rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, " times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px" max-width="max-width">Known in New York tabloids as the “Manhattan Madam,” Ms. Davis is perhaps best remembered for having claimed in 2008 that she provided escorts to Eliot Spitzer, who resigned that same year as governor of New York after The New York Times <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/nyregion/10cnd-spitzer.html" title="" style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">reported</a> that he had become ensnared by a federal investigation into a different prostitution ring. Mr. Spitzer has denied any ties to Ms. Davis, 43, who spent four months on Rikers Island for running her escort service.<p class="css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.6rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, " times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px" max-width="max-width">Ms. Davis’s lawyer, Daniel Hochheiser, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.</div></div><div class="css-18sbwfn StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 19px; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" display="display" flex="flex" height="height" px="px" width="width" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><div class="css-1h6whtw" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px calc((100% - 630px) / 2); padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;"><p class="css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0" style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.6rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, " times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px" max-width="max-width">Last week, Mr. Stone said in a statement that he is the godfather of Ms. Davis’s child and that he had been her “friend and associate” for many years. Ms. Davis hired Mr. Stone in 2010 as a political strategist when she launched her own campaign for governor o</div></div></div><div></div><div>cooper asked about Kristin Davis, known as the "Manhattan Madam," who has been called to testify before a federal grand jury. Stone described her as a friend but said that she would have no knowledge of Russian interference in the 2016 election or his own communications with WikiLeaks, which have raised suspicions given the intelligence community's belief that the organization has Kremlin ties.</div><div>
</div>Stone expressed enthusiasm for the idea that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange might testify to Congress about the 2016 election. He also took the opportunity to double-down on conspiracy theories that posit that the Russians didn't hack the Democratic National Committee, which the findings of the intelligence community and independent analysts contradict."This is a tremendously expensive process to be under the scrutiny of an all-powerful federal prosecutor," Stone said. "I'm being sued by the Democratic National Committee, and in that lawsuit, whether or not the Russians hacked the DNC is a central question. The indictment announced by Mr. Mueller claims that they did, but that's an indictment, not a conviction in a court of law. Mr. Assange would have information regarding this that he might be able to illuminate the American people regarding, so I think his testimony would be a positive thing."Watch the clip below:<div>===
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</div><div>he candidacy of Kristin Davis was perceived as one more salvo in Roger Stone’s vendetta against former governor Eliot Spitzer. Stone had been working, in 2007, for New York Senate majority leader Joseph Bruno on a $20,000 a month contract. Bruno was in a long, poisonous fight with Spitzer, and the dirty trickster had been brought in to help. The dirty trick he came up with was cruel, stupid, obvious. To harass Spitzer’s father, an elderly man with Parkinson’s, with a threatening message left on his answering machine:<blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">This is a message for Bernard Spitzer. You will be subpoenaed to testify before the Senate committee on investigation on your shady campaign loans. You will be compelled by the Senate sergeant at arms, if you resist, you will be arrested and brought to Albany – and there’s not a goddamn thing your phony, psycho piece of shit son can do about it. Bernie, your phony loans are about to catch up with you. You will be forced to tell the truth. The fact that your son is a pathological liar will be known to all.</blockquote>(A clip which compares the audio on the call to Bernard Spitzer, and the audio of Roger Stone on<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-jjhf394o" sl-processed="1" style="">part two of a “Shark Tank” interview</a>.)“I have been accused of a lot of things but being dumb is not one of them,” said Stone in response to the allegation that he made the phone call. “I don’t deny that the phone number is mine but fabricating my voice would be exceedingly easy. Give me a fucking break. This is the ultimate dirty trick and the kind of terror tactic Spitzer used in the Attorney General’s Office.” He would say that he was at the play Frost/Nixon the night the call was made, though there was no performance that evening. Again, this is Stone: “I have been accused of a lot of things but being dumb is not one of them.” Here is one of Stone’s clients, on the affair: “They caught Roger red-handed lying,” said Donald Trump. “What he did was ridiculous and stupid.” Stone would be fired by Bruno<a name="bkfrftnote140" style="text-decoration: underline;" /><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-six/#ftnote140" sl-processed="1" style="">140</a>. When the scandal broke that Eliot Spitzer had paid money for escort services, Stone would allege that he played a key role in the scandal by sending a letter to the FBI after speaking to an escort in a Miami club who’d had Spitzer as a client. The FBI would explicitly state that they never received any such letter. Kristin Davis was a convicted madam who alleged she had provided escorts for Spitzer, dozens maybe hundreds of times, and that Spitzer was abusive to women – but the New York Attorney General had confiscated her records when she was charged, and they showed no evidence of Spitzer ever having been one of her clients. When Alex Gibney dispassionately presented all this in Client 9, his documentary based on the well-researched book of Peter Elkind, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Client-Rise-Fall-Eliot-Spitzer/dp/B005DI8XSU/" sl-processed="1" style="">Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer</a>, Stone would refer to Gibney as “Leni Riefenstahl” on TV<a name="bkfrftnote141" style="text-decoration: underline;" /><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-six/#ftnote141" sl-processed="1" style="">141</a>. It didn’t matter that there was nothing connecting Spitzer to Kristin Davis; the evidence didn’t matter. By running Davis, Stone had a means to throw slimy allegations throughout the election season.As said, Paladino was running for the Republican nomination, and Kristin Davis was running for the libertarian ticket. According to Stone, he had no connection to the Paladino campaign, though his close associate, Michael Caputo was running it, his assistant Dianne Thorne was on it, as was Michael Johns, the man who’d played a role in the Angolan chemical weapons incident involving BMS&K, as well as Tim Suereth, Thorne’s husband, who’d work alongside Stone before and after this campaign. Thorne’s stepson, Andrew Miller, would get paid for work on the Paladino campaign before shifting over to Kristin Davis. Stone would say that Paladino came to him for campaign advice on the outset, and that he’d help pick out his campaign staff. There were other intersections. When Paladino’s campaign kicked off at the Elliott Square Building in Buffalo, New York, Stone was there on the scene. A month before the election, attorney Lora Como, a campaign aide of Paladino’s , would allege that she’d been assaulted by Stone while they were at his Chelsea apartment. “He threw me to the ground and bruised my ribs. He was hostile and menacing and I wanted him arrested for assault and I went to the police,” alleged Como. Stone would acknowledge a disagreement with Como and that they were together at his apartment, but had a different version of events. He’d asked her to leave, and she’d gotten upset, he said. “I completely reject her assertion that I ever hit her or abused her in any physical way,” he said. In the article reporting the incident,<a href="http://nypost.com/2010/10/18/assault-claim-vs-carls-aide-stone/" sl-processed="1" style="">“Assault claim vs. Carl’s aide Stone”</a> by Fred Dicker, Stone was now referred to as a key campaign adviser of Paladino<a name="bkfrftnote142" style="text-decoration: underline;" /><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-six/#ftnote142" sl-processed="1" style="">142</a>. <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2010/11/the_kristin_dav.php" sl-processed="1" style="">“The Kristin Davis Post-Election Party: Pretty Much What You’d Expect”</a> by Brianna Strange, reported that Stone was at Davis’s election night party, along with Miller, still her campaign manager<a name="bkfrftnote143" style="text-decoration: underline;" /><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-six/#ftnote143" sl-processed="1" style="">143</a>.Davis was running for the Libertarian ticket against Warren Redlich, a town board member and traffic lawyer. In April, at the beginning of the campaign, Stone would exchange a series of emails with Redlich. Much of the emails consist of Stone trying to pressure Redlich to step aside, so that Davis could be on the ticket for governor. If Redlich didn’t step aside, Davis wouldn’t attend the party convention, and they might set up their own party, filing suit over Redlich’s use of the Libertarian Party name. A few representative emails are below; paragraph spacing has been added for improved readability, but no other alterations have been made. The full emails are available at Capitol Confidential‘s <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100426123339/http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/25264/e-mails-show-stone-strategizing-for-paladino" sl-processed="1" style="">“E-mails show Stone strategizing for Paladino” (archived)</a> by Jimmy Vielkind:<blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Me [Warren Redlich], 10:31 am:Can we just talk at the LPNY convention? We can talk Friday evening or Saturday morning, before anything of substance happens at the convention.My schedule this week is pretty crazy. Had a trial yesterday, going to court near Binghamton tomorrow, etc.W</blockquote><blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Stone, 10:43 am: WarrenNo- that is too late- unless we can reach some accomodation [sic] Kristin wont be attending the convention. A convention where a candidate isnt given a list of eleigible [sic] voters and where a poll tax of $25 is paid to vote isnt very legitimate.In that case we’d prefer to petition on our own party onto the ballot [sic]- litigate over the word LIBERTARIAN- plenty of case-law.Sure u can win the nomination on Saturday. How will you get 50,000 votes without money or publicity. I suggest a broader effort.I too am busy. Let me know if you are available to talk by phone.R</blockquote><blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Me [Warren Redlich], 4:05 pm:I’m a trial lawyer. When people threaten to sue me I find it amusing.My impression is that you want Kristin to have the LP nomination for Governor and you may want me on the slate, perhaps LG or AG.I don’t think the LPNY is willing to have Kristin in the Governor slot but I don’t speak for them – you’re wasting your time talking to me. If you can get the LPNY to go along with Kristin as the Governor candidate, and you want me on the ticket, I’m willing to consider that.I do think I’m the better candidate for Governor, and I’m not going to step aside. But if you persuade them, and you still want me on board, I’m open to it.On the other hand, if Kristin wants to be on the slate with me as the Governor candidate and her as LG or Comptroller, I think they’re more likely to go along with that. But again, I don’t speak for the LPNY. You should talk to them.My cell is [omitted] if you want to talk.Warren</blockquote>The next email, from Stone, is the most interesting. He is a campaign manager for Davis, yet he now offers a deal where if Redlich runs for the Attorney General spot (rather than the governor spot), he can get Redlich to be on Paladino’s petitions and run in the GOP primary. How is it that Stone, who supposedly has no connection with the Paladino campaign, except for giving them advice, is able to offer such a deal?<blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Stone, 4:48: Because of her tangential connection to spitzer no other race makes sense for her. She, unlike you, has a shelf life. The further from Spitzer downfall the less her ability to command coverage. No other race has any logic for her.Were you to support her actively you could help win her the votes to be nominated. If you ran for AG I could get Paladino to let you ride on both his GOP ( you are a registered R) and Tea Party petitions- and thus get in the GOP primary for real and get a second line. I can have Paladino himself confirm this if you like.Donovan [Daniel M. Donovan, the eventual Republican candidate for Attorney General] is not a certain candidate for AG. You could end up the nominee.In a 3 way race for Governor a woman candidate running on marijuana legalization gets 50,000+ votes and takes votes from Cuomo- not a Paladino. Prostitution would be de-emphasized in a fall campaign.From my point of view you would help KD more as a candidate for LG making a nice balance M-F,downstate-upstate, non-lawyer, lawyer etc.From your point of view a race for AG would be better for you if you would consider it.R</blockquote>Redlich would then contact Paladino, asking about the offer that Stone had made, and how it was that Stone, a campaign manager for an entirely separate campaign, on an entirely separate party ticket, had the authority to speak for Paladino:<blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Me [Warren Redlich] (to Paladino), 6:01 pm: Carl,When we met last week, I did not have the impression that Roger Stone was on your campaign team. As you can see by the exchange below, he is speaking to me as if he has some sway over you – “I could get Paladino to let you ride on…”It was my impression that you were campaigning as someone different from the usual politicians. If you’re working with Roger Stone, in the way he describes, then you don’t seem that different to me.I’m big on hunches. My hunch is that he does not speak for you. Some of the things he says here do not fit with things you said to me when we met.Mainly, I thought you should know that Stone was throwing your name around like he has some control over you. You don’t strike me as someone who is so easily controlled.My cell is [omitted] if you want to talk. I have a town board meeting tonight at 7:30 pm and it might go long, so tomorrow might be better.
I cc’d Jim, Rus, and Allen on this message because I’ve had some interaction with them over the course of the campaign and I thought they should know what’s going on.Warren</blockquote>Stone would hear of this email to Paladino, and his reply would be curt:<blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Stone, 9:05 pm: Warren- do you really think this is clever ?…you’re out your league- and gentlemen don’t share personal correspondence. You sir, are no gentleman-R</blockquote>Redlich would forward the correspondence between himself and Stone to Eric Dondero, a libertarian blogger (his blog was <a href="http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/" sl-processed="1" style="">Libertrarian Republican</a> and he gained some prominence due to his attempt to boycott liberals after the Obama re-election, which resulted in interviews such as, <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/11/eric-dondero-boycott-democrat-libertarian.html" sl-processed="1" style="">“Democrat-Boycotting Libertarian Eric Dondero on Whether He Would Let a Democrat Drown”</a> by Dan Amira), who contacted Stone, who sent another curt email to Redlich:<blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Stone, 4/21, 5:03 pm: Dondero wont print your leaked correspondencerookie move assholeguess CP [Conservative Party] shoved it up your ass, too.LOSER……..</blockquote>Redlich would reply:<blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Me [Warren Redlich], 5:58 pm:We both know I’m a rookie. What I don’t get is why you’re wasting your time with me.You are celebrating a tiny victory over a nobody.If we played basketball, I’d clobber you. But it wouldn’t mean anything because I’m taller, younger and more experienced.For some reason you’re trying to rub it in. I have no expectation of beating you. You’re supposed to be better at this.W</blockquote>However, the supposed master tactician Roger Stone and his candidate, Kristin Davis, would lose to the rookie. Redlich would be on the Libertarian Party ticket, and Kristin Davis would run instead on her own newly created ticket, The Anti-Prohibition Party. During the general race, with Paladino on the Republican ticket, Cuomo on the Democratic, Davis with Anti-Prohibition, and Redlich on the Libertarian, Stone was involved in one of the more vile acts of his life. Redlich had written a blog post on a semi-nude picture of Miley Cyrus that had appeared in Vanity Fair (which was only four years ago, but now feels like an eternity), an intelligent analysis arguing that much of the furor around the picture lay with a contemporary American sensibility, that viewed teenagers as either entirely sexual, or entirely non-sexual. We assume this sensibility to be universal and eternal, when it isn’t – Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet is written about lovers that were the same age as Miley Cyrus. One could disagree with the argument Redlich made, but it was ultimately an argument, not a predatory fantasy, or justification for rape. On October 29th, Capitol Confidential’s Jimmy Vieklind published <a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/33677/stone-i-pushed-for-redlich-mailer/" sl-processed="1" style="">“I pushed for the Redlich mailer”</a>, about the appearance of a mailer, featuring a photo of Redlich as well as his phone number and home address, which warned that he was a public danger and for people to call the police when they see him:<img src="http://i.imgur.com/GqqPUqa.jpg" alt="Roger Stone - Pretty Reckless is going straight to hell" title="Roger Stone - Pretty Reckless is going straight to hell" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0.5em;" />“Everyone who has contacted me about the flyer has been disgusted by it,” wrote Vieklind, “and one reader noted it landed in his mail box the same day as a flyer supporting Kristen Davis, the Anti-Prohibition Party candidate.” Both mailers shared the same postal permit. “It’s an absolute disgrace,” Redlich would say. “Nothing I’ve ever written would qualify me as a sexual predator more than it would qualify William Shakespeare as a sexual predator…I think discussing what I wrote is attacking the victim. The fact that I think the Miley Cyrus story was overblown does not make me a predator, and it’s not even close.” The flier was put out by another mysterious group, People for a Safer New York, of which there was no record<a name="bkfrftnote144" style="text-decoration: underline;" /><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-six/#ftnote144" sl-processed="1" style="">144</a>.Vieklind would contact Roger Stone about the mailer, and though Stone would not take credit for it, he did say he was in contact with People for a Safer New York, that the mailers were accurate, they were legal, he not only supported the mailers, he urged them to do it. “I’ve seen both mailers, I think that they’re both accurate. People for a Safer New York is called a first amendment group,” Stone told Velkind by phone. “I’m in touch with them. Who are they? They’re a first amendment organization I urged them to do this, this is a first amendment issue.”<a name="bkfrftnote145" style="text-decoration: underline;" /><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-six/#ftnote145" sl-processed="1" style="">145</a>“I don’t want this story spread because I have children,” Redlich would say of the mailers. “Let’s be clear about my sick alternative lifestyle: I’ve been married for 15 years, I have two children, I live in suburbia on a cul de sac and my kids go to public school.” Stone to Velkind: “Let’s be very clear: everything here is 100 percent legal, everything here is 100 percent accurate,” he said. “As somebody who has two granddaughters, I really find Redlich’s advocacy and defense of sex with underrate girls disgusting and repugnant, and voters need to know about it prior to voting on Tuesday.”<a name="bkfrftnote146" style="text-decoration: underline;" /><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-six/#ftnote146" sl-processed="1" style="">146</a>Heather Redlich, the candidate’s wife, would write a letter to Capitol Confidential expressing her anguish over the mailer. Capitol Confidential would publish the letter, <a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/33766/redlichs-wifes-letter-to-stone-on-horrific-smear/" sl-processed="1" style="">“Redlich’s wife’s letter to Stone on ‘horrific smear’”</a>. The text of the letter follows:<blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">You have told terrible lies about my husband. You have hurt me and my family. I have suffered anxiety and heartache.You have made me fear for the safety of my children in our own home. I am the type of person that avoids the limelight. I don’t like when people talk about me but I feel I can be silent no more. So, I will dry my tears and write my own message to New Yorkers:I have known Warren Redlich for 19 years and have been married to him for 15 years. We have two school-age children. We met in law school, got married shortly after graduation and built a home together. Warren supported me when I decided to pursue a career as a librarian. When I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer during my first pregnancy, he took care of me and our newborn child.In the years since, we have started a law practice together. We have joined a local Congregation. Warren has volunteered with our Congregation’s Brotherhood. He has given his time to talk to high school students about politics and the law. He has welcomed interns into our law practice and enjoyed being a mentor. He has counseled our clients with mental health problems and assisted those with physical disabilities. I am a member of the Junior League of Albany and have volunteered with our Congregation’s Sisterhood.Our daily lives involve running a business, driving our kids to after-school activities, going on family outings and eating dinner together. We teach our children to be kind to others. We try to make the world a better place by volunteering and getting involved with our community.Our friends and neighbors have received these lies in the mail. They know the truth. But for those who do not, I will tell you. Warren has never committed a crime. We do not have a deviant lifestyle. Warren is not perfect but he is a good person, a loyal friend, and a loving husband and father. You do not need to fear Warren.You should fear those that tell such lies and sling mud. Be leery of those that are afraid of open political debate. Fear those that have trounced the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” As for Mr. Stone and the others behind this horrific smear who speak these evil words, I hope the people of New York will reject your lies and will vote for principled men and women in the election.</blockquote>I think it is so very easy to fill space when something like this makes you angry, and you must resist this most of all for aesthetic reasons, that nothing is so ugly and dull as a screech, however righteous. My anger has none of the comfort or certainty of an ideological target; I think libertarianism has done great damage to the United States, I want Warren Redlich’s ideology to fail – and yet I am still disgusted that this was done to him. With regard to this vile act, I will only say that there are great artists who can work on an extraordinary variety of canvases, the most vast and the smallest miniatures. Roger Stone, I think, is something like a great artist. He could cause horrific suffering among millions by working with a firm that prolonged a cruel, merciless war in Africa, and he could visit horror on a single family, falsely accusing a father of being a pedophile out of spite that this political rookie had just soundly beaten him in an election. “Color me contrarian, but I will say something I don’t believe another Washington reporter has ever admitted publicly: I like Roger Stone,” writes Matt Labash. “Stone is like a U.S. Army of treachery: He screws more people before 9 A.M. than most people do in a whole day,” writes Matt Labash, admiringly. And when one of those people is Warren Redlich, and the way Roger Stone screws him is to make his life a miserable hell by putting out fliers that he’s a sexual predator, does that fill you with gleeful laughter, Mr. Labash, or does it make you want to throw up?Paladino’s campaign would be an endless joke. A mass of repellent emails that he forwarded out of amusement, such as an “Obama Inauguration Ceremony” featuring a group of African tribesmen as well as a bestiality video, would show up early on in the race. “With those emails out there, he’s clearly unelectable,” said a veteran political consultant. After stories were published about Paladino’s out of wedlock daughter, the candidate got into a screaming match with veteran political reporter Fred Dicker. “You send another goon to my daughter’s house and I’ll take you out, buddy!” Paladino would deliver a speech where he condemned homosexuality. “I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option – it isn’t,” he said. “You’re not an illegal immigrant, are you?” he’d ask during an interview with Fox reporter Ti Hua Chang. Caputo had Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic candidate, followed around by two people in duck costumes, sounding duck calls, as a way of taunting Cuomo for not agreeing to a debate. Caputo alleged that Cuomo aides had warned the ducks, “if you girls don’t get out of here I’m going to shove those duck calls down your throats.” Caputo alleged the encounter was “likely a hate crime since the Cuomo staffer clearly referenced their sexuality in his threat.” Cuomo won an overwhelming win over Paladino, who got 34% of the vote. <a href="http://observer.com/2010/10/madam-kristin-goes-to-albany/" sl-processed="1" style="">“Madam Kristin Goes to Albany”</a> by Molly Young describes a press conference held by Davis when she was running on the Anti-Prohibition Party. Seven people showed up, four of them from her campaign. Another was a heckler. “You don’t really think you have a chance, do you?,” he asked<a name="bkfrftnote147" style="text-decoration: underline;" /><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-six/#ftnote147" sl-processed="1" style="">147</a>. Neither Redlich nor Davis garnered enough votes for their parties to be placed on future ballots, but once again, the rookie had outdone the veteran strategist. Redlich pulled in 44,761 votes. Davis pulled in 22,000 votes. In a piece on the election, Stone wrote, without irony, that “Davis ran a positive campaign.”<a name="bkfrftnote148" style="text-decoration: underline;" /><a href="http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-six/#ftnote148" sl-processed="1" style="">148</a>He took space in this post-election piece to defend the Redlich mailer:<blockquote style="border-left: 10px solid rgb(54, 188, 171); padding: 10px; text-align: justify; line-height: 22.75px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">In the closing days of the race a First Amendment group People for Safer New York exposed Redlich’s weird writing defending sex with under aged girls in a carefully lawyered piece of literature that exposed Redlich as Sexual predator in his attitude. Redich can huff and puff all he wants but the claims fall squarely within the bounds of the First Amendment. Liberal reporters found Redlich’s writing acceptable as they saw it a sophisticated, erudite and cosmopolitan. It wasn’t. It was vile. I’m a libertine but I limit myself to consenting adults.</blockquote>For whatever reason, Stone would eventually take this page down from his site – this content is pulled from the wayback machine archives.</div></div>