Little Republican New York Centipede

(((Tapping, leaking, partisan advantage, an election, a sex angle, it's got pretty much everything you need except a Bollywood actress.)))http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/28/politics/p143433D16.DTL&type=politicsWomen's Group Rallies to GOP CandidateBy MARK JOHNSON, Associated Press WriterThursday, September 28, 2006 (09-28) 14:34 PDT Albany, N.Y. (AP) –The National Organization for Women came to the defense of Jeanine Pirro and Republican leaders said there were no plans to drop her as their candidate for state attorney general Thursday after it learned she is under federal investigation over a plan to secretly record her unfaithful husband.A defiant Pirro said she is determined to stay in the race and will seek a federal investigation into the leak of sealed court documents regarding her discussions with former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik about taping her husband, Albert Pirro.The leak "is the only felony that has occurred in this situation," Pirro told the New York Hispanic Clergy Association in New York City.Pirro said that she had talked with Kerik about her desire to tape her husband and find out whether he was having another affair. But she denied any taping took place, and said she was was simply venting her anger in discussing the idea with Kerik.Albert Pirro, a millionaire lobbyist, spent 11 months in prison after being convicted of tax fraud in 2000. He fathered an illegitimate daughter after the couple's wedding in 1975.Marcia Pappas, president of the New York state chapter of NOW, said her group supports Jeanine Pirro "completely for fighting back on this intrusion.""It's absolutely horrendous the government would intrude on anyone's life in this way," she said. "They are targeting her because she is a woman. If anyone believes in the right to privacy, they should be enraged by the behavior by our government."etc etc until something implodes etc etc