Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith tried to pay off some of New York City's Republican party bosses to get himself on the ballot as a GOP candidate, federal prosecutors said.

New York City Councilman Dan Halloran and with four other political figures also were charged in what U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called "an unappetizing smorgasbord of graft and greed involving six officials who together built a corridor of corruption stretching from Queens and the Bronx to Rockland County and all the way up to Albany itself."

Smith \"tried to bribe his way to a shot at Gracie Mansion,\" Bharara said in a statement, referring to the official mayor's residence. \"Smith drew up the game plan and Councilman Halloran essentially quarterbacked that drive by finding party chairmen who were wide open to receiving bribes.\"

In meetings with a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer, Smith agreed to bribe leaders of Republican Party county committees around New York City in an attempt to run for mayor as a Republican, even though he was a registered Democrat, the criminal complaint said."

Or as majority of this board, repeatedly states, the benevolent, angelic, Jedi like, beloved Democrats?

cbelt3 wrote: And well done answering the actual question rather than indulging in adhominemisms.