Thank you, Eliot Spitzer !!

Initial reports were, are still are, confused. The total cost of the evening was about $4000.oo, but that included several items not related to what should be referred to as the labor fee.

These include train (not air?!) fare roundtrip, taxis, the hotel room and the open bar for a full twelve hours and other fees to the pimp, er, booking agent and the money transfer agency (shell corporation, yes, but still the pimp.

The remainder, approximately - I have not been able to divine from news report the exact amounts paid (these news reporters seem to be focusing not so much on the economics of this enterprise for some odd reason.) amounts to between $1000 and $1200 dollars (US). Of that, the laborer must share 50% to her slaveholder, er, employer. She is entitled to keep any "tips" offered by the client.

So, let's best case this: she gets $600.oo in fees and let's say a 25% tip from Mr. Sometimes Asks to Do Things That You Might Not Think Are Safe.

Thats - (mmm .25 X 6.....move the decimal point.....) a total of $750.00 but let's remember that the worker had to leave her New York apt, travel to Washington and return about 14 hours later.

She was on the road more than she was on the mattress.

If we are generous about the time she may have spent sleeping (6 hours) that still leaves her making a little less than a $100.00 an hour which, if my chart from the US Census is correct, is way less than what the divorce attorney will charge but still more then any person who makes econometric models makes.

Joe(all funds received, including tips, should be reported on her Quarterly Tax Forms. ... right.)Nation

If they are gonna charge Spitzer, then they gotta charge others.

Although the Emperors Club VIP website did say, "Inquire about our weekend and multiple day travel package rates!" So mebbe they'd have thrown in a thousand dollar off.

BillW wrote:

If they are gonna charge Spitzer, then they gotta charge others.

Why so? You don't know if they, like Spitzer, violated the Mann act..

Otherwise, on which grounds can them be charged?

Why so? You don't know if they, like Spitzer, violated the Mann act..

Otherwise, on which grounds can them be charged?

Vitter sees no comparison

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has been mostly mum on the prostitution scandal that forced Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to announce his resignation last week. But Vitter let down his guard a bit in a conference call with constituents. Scott Jordan, editor of the Independent Weekly of Lafayette, said he was able to ask Vitter whether he would resign after his phone number was connected last year to a Washington, D.C., escort service that federal investigators say was a call-girl operation. "I have made a very serious mistake a long time ago and I have to live with that every day," Vitter said, according to Jordan's account. "That's not a flippant statement. I need to spend my whole life making up for that." According to Jordan, Vitter turned "a bit defiant" and added: "Anybody who looks at the two cases will see there is an enormous difference between the two of them. The people that are trying to draw comparisons to the two cases are people who've never agreed with me on important issues like immigration and other things."

Senator Vitter: "there is an enormous difference" between Spitzer's case and mine

Well, both cases involving prostitution. One key difference between Spitzer and Vitter is that Vitter is still holding public office.

Last July, CREW filed a Senate Ethics Complaint against Sen. Vitter. We're still waiting for action on that.

Last week, the National Republican Congressional Committee called on Democrats to return contributions from Gov. Spitzer, but no similar call has been made for Republicans to return contributions from Sen. Vitter. Here's a link to a list of those campaigns that have received campaign contributions from Sen. Vitter.

Spitzer was a spendthrift, big-city liberal, whereas Vitter exercised much more restraint as to how much he spent on each of his trysts with hookers.