Governor Spitzer Releases Email Addresses

Spitzer is in a brand-spanking new chunk of trouble --

Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
ALBANY - 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 inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He scheduled an announcement for 2:15 after inquiries from the Times.

Mr. Spitzer, a first term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform an end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children.
(NYT article)

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I'll be surprised if the email thing isn't a bcc type clerical error, unfortunate at that.

are you suggesting he had a clerk sent the email ?
if that's the case , the clerk should be severely reprimanded :wink:
hbg

Little chance...as a Jew is not likely to be elected to that high an office in France.

''The problem is we don't know when this behavior started for this person,'' said Cohen, a professor of public administration at Columbia University. ''Politicians are like the rest of us. The fact that they're flawed and do stupid things shouldn't surprise us.''

The real question, Cohen said, is whether Spitzer should be held to a different ethical standard. And his answer is yes.

''This isn't Britney Spears we're talking about. This is the governor,'' Cohen said. ''The bottom line is, he controls the National Guard and the state police. He could have people come to arrest you and me tomorrow. So his private behavior does become a public issue.''

Well, I'll read the NYer article this evening, not that it's a sacrosanct thing, but as a starter for background.

ossobuco wrote:

Well, I'll read the NYer article this evening, not that it's a sacrosanct thing, but as a starter for background.

Spitzer had a perfect score on the LSAT and was on the editorial board at the Harvard Law Review, while a student at Harvard Law.

Funny how Spitzer was so smart about some things and yet real stupid about others.

Further equivocation that attempts to muddy the ethical waters on this issue is stupid. Spitzer crossed a very big line re public trust . He parlayed his previous career, one that strongly included a commitment to a higher ethical standard, into the states highest office and a future within the National Dem Party. He betrayed that trust and apparently did it with very little concern about his own highly publicized ethical standards. Whata schmuck.

His resignation should not be delayed. His guilt in this matter is no longer theissue.

In June 2005, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson hailed Eliot Spitzer as "the future of the (Democratic) party."

He is resigning as I type this ....

Spitzer made a public career out of the very thing that snagged him. The irony is lost on you ?

Your tit for tat comparisons are kinda childish. They dont make Spitzer any the less guilty. Maybe Spitzer should just act the grown up and take his meds.
Hes got a wrecked marriage to deal with. If I'se his wife, Id be divvying up the assets as we speak. Its a shame , but **** happens and theres no hiding.

Spitzer made a public career out of the very thing that snagged him. The irony is lost on you ?

Your tit for tat comparisons are kinda childish. They dont make Spitzer any the less guilty. Maybe Spitzer should just act the grown up and take his meds.
Hes got a wrecked marriage to deal with. If I'se his wife, Id be divvying up the assets as we speak. Its a shame , but **** happens and theres no hiding.