[quote=“NYT”]Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.
Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He is set to make an announcement about 2:15 this afternoon at his Manhattan office.
Mr. Spitzer, a first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children. [/quote]
All sex is prostitution. Just as there’s no such thing as a free lunch, there’s no such thing as a free fuck. The only real difference is whether you pay a flat rate or pay as you go.
Damn, too bad. I liked Spitzer as Atty General. He’s smart as hell and was really tough, cracking down on all sorts of white collar crime, securities fraud, insurance fraud, mob activities, etc. Heck, he became governor of NY in his mid 40’s – an impressive feat – for good reason.
And, while this will be surely be devastating for his career, for god sake it’s only prostitution, sex, the world’s oldest profession. I wish him a speedy recovery.
He may have thought he was just doing his job. After all, it can’t be easy being a politician and knowing exactly where the line between politics and prostitution is under all circumstances.
[quote=“Mother Theresa”]Damn, too bad. I liked Spitzer as Atty General. He’s smart as hell and was really tough, cracking down on all sorts of white collar crime, securities fraud, insurance fraud, mob activities, etc. Heck, he became governor of NY in his mid 40’s – an impressive feat – for good reason.
And, while this will be surely be devastating for his career, for god sake it’s only prostitution, sex, the world’s oldest profession. I wish him a speedy recovery.[/quote]
Dude, you like don’t see the hypocricy in all this at all, do you. He’s right up there with that Rep bathrom battie boy, as far as I’m concerned.
No, I do see the hypocracy in it and it saddens me, because he had/s so much promise and his career was off to a roaring good start.
Not quite as seemy as the Idaho bathroom guy in my opinion, because I see sex with high class call girls as slightly more respectable than blowjobs in public toilet stalls. But I admit, there is some similarity between the two and I’m sad to see that.
It is a funny, cautious headline. “Links to prostitution.” Yea, linked at the groin. Too bad they can’t just print the truth “Spitzer Fucking Hookers!”
No, I do see the hypocracy in it and it saddens me, because he had/s so much promise and his career was off to a roaring good start.
Not quite as seemy as the Idaho bathroom guy in my opinion, because I see sex with high class call girls as slightly more respectable than blowjobs in public toilet stalls. But I admit, there is some similarity between the two and I’m sad to see that.[/quote]
Total hypocrisy. It’s all the same: people in power breaking the law because they think they’re above it.
At least he’s taking it well. According to the article below, the heroic champion of the people is looking to put this behind him, vowing to take a break from abusing prosecutorial power to turn the financial services industry into his private fiefdom in order to concentrate on this, his latest cause:
Discovering that the exclusive international ring of prostitutes known as the “Emperor’s Club” charged up to $5,500 an hour for their services, New York governor Eliot Spitzer vowed to put an end to this price gouging practice.
Four people alleged to have run the “Emperor’s Club” were charged with conspiracy to violate federal prostitution statutes, while two of them were also charged with laundering more than $1 million in illegal proceeds.
"That kind of excessive compensation is simply outrageous. Prostitution is allegedly a victimless crime,” Spitzer said in a press conference that took place only in our imaginations. “But now we see that its customers can become its victims.”[/quote]
He’s made a lot of enemies on Wall Street. I’m sure there are a lot of happy campers in front of Alexander Hamilton’s statue today. The Democratic governor used the alias “George Fox” when meeting with a prostitute. Never knew he was a fan of British history. In any case, his political career seems to be over. If this hadn’t have happened and if he recovered from his tumultous first year in office, he looked like a strong candidate for the Dems in 2012.
Never knew he was a fan of British history. In any case, his political career seems to be over. If this hadn’t have happened and if he recovered from his tumultous first year in office, he looked like a strong candidate for the Dems in 2012.