Posted on 03/10/2008 11:46:20 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
LA Times...with some interesting commentary:
UPDATE: Spitzer played a tangential role in the narrative of the Democratic presidential nomination fight. It was he, you'll recall, who raised ...
... the possibility of granting driver's licenses to immigrants regardless of whether they were documented, which became a recurring topic in the early candidate debates. A strong political backlash led Spitzer to drop the plan.
But he has been most noted for taking on powerful interests, such as insurance companies.
UPDATE II: Spitzer's press announcement was short and sweet and devoid of details. Without specifying what he was talking about -- but the context was clear -- Spitzer apologized to his family. "I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family.... I must now dedicate my time to regain the trust of my family."
He also apologized "to the public, and I promise better. I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas, the public good and doing what is best for the state of New York." Spitzer also said he "failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself." He took no questions.
-- Scott Martelle
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The Democrats culture of entitlement is demonstrated
once again .Give driving permits to illegal immigrants,
Talk woman rights and participate in shocking vice
that demean women in the most vile way.Lets hope
justice is applied to the fullest extent.
Thanks for posting the pic. I was just wondering how old are his children. This is horrible for them, and I feel so sorry for those girls, and his wife!
He obviously has no shame, and will probably try to brazen his way through this just as Clinton did in the WH. He hasn’t actually resigned yet, has he?
He hasn’t actually resigned yet, has he?
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No.
I suspect soon.
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I don't see a problem here. The only thing wrong i see is he may be guilty of something he has locked people up for. Maybe he might be motivated to legalize prostitution now. if they just legalize it like it is in Nevada, this situation is revealed for the ridiculousness that it is. Investigating prostitution is a waste of our tax dollars, and police resources. and if we citizens have to re-prioritize our lives and deal with all the wire taps and privacy violations and being stripped down at airports,because of the war on terror, then maybe they can prioritize and stop chasing people who are pleasuring each other and chase people who are killing each other.
SPITZER EMBROILED IN PROSTITUTION SCANDAL
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Embroiled in a prostitution scandal, Gov. Eliot Spitzer said he needed time to dedicate himself to his family, but the first-term Democrat did not indicate that he would resign amids reports linking him to a high-end prostitution ring.
Spitzer apologizes to public, family; future uncertain
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I wonder what ELSE is going to come out...what else is involved.
Well now, that's an entirely different issue!
NO Herr Spitzer-—— nothing you do that endangers the community of humanity is private sir.
You lost that right when you went after the unborn...demanding that more and more unborn die to satisfy your sick ideology.
Exactly. We might be whooping it up to have it come crashing down if you know what I mean.
Exactly. For example, who are clients # 1-8??
We aren’t dealing with ca$h johns on the street...
one more update..
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NY governor linked to prostitution ring
AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_on_re_us/spitzer_prostitution
NEW YORK - Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s political career teetered on the brink of collapse Monday after the corruption-fighting politician once known as “Mr. Clean” was accused of paying for sex with a high-priced call girl. The scandal drew immediate calls for the Democrat to step down. At a news conference before about 100 reporters, a glassy-eyed Spitzer, his shellshocked wife at his side, apologized to his family and the people of New York.
But he gave no details of what he was sorry for, did not discuss his political future and ignored shouted questions about whether he would resign.
“I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself,” said the 48-year-old father of three teenage girls. “I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family.”
Spitzer was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet at a Washington hotel room with a prostitute from a call-girl business known as the Emperors Club VIP, according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still going on.
The governor has not been charged, and prosecutors would not comment on the case.
The scandal came 16 months after Spitzer stormed into the governor’s office with a historic margin of victory, vowing to root out corruption in New York government in the same way that he took on Wall Street executives with a vengeance while state attorney general.
But his first year in office was marred by turmoil, and the latest scandal raised questions about whether he would make it through a second year.
“He has to step down. No one will stand with him,” said Rep. Peter King, a Republican congressman from Long Island. “I never try to take advantage or gloat over a personal tragedy. However, this is different. This is a guy who is so self-righteous, and so unforgiving.”
Democratic Assemblyman John McEneny said: “I don’t think anyone remembers anything like this. The fact that the governor has a reputation as a reformer and there is a certain assumption as attorney general that you’re Caesar’s wife. It’s a different element than if you were an accountant.”
Democratic Lt. Gov. David Paterson would become New York’s first black governor if Spitzer were to resign.
The allegations were outlined in papers filed in federal court in New York. The governor, identified in the papers only as “Client 9,” met last month with a woman in a Washington hotel the day before Valentine’s Day, the law enforcement official said.
A defendant in the case, Temeka Rachelle Lewis, told a prostitute identified only as “Kristen” that she should take a train from New York to Washington for an encounter with Client No. 9 on the night of Feb. 13, according to a complaint. The defendant confirmed that the client would be “paying for everything — train tickets, cab fare from the hotel and back, mini bar or room service, travel time, and hotel.”
The prostitute, described in the complaint as a “petite, pretty brunette, 5-feet-5 inches, and 105 pounds,” met the client in Room 871 at about 10 p.m., according to the complaint. He paid $4,300 in cash, with some being used for the encounter and the rest apparently to be used for credit for future trysts, according to the papers.
When discussing how the payments would be arranged, Client 9 told Lewis: “Yup, same as in the past, no question about it” — suggesting Client 9 had done this before.
According to court papers, an Emperor’s Club agent was told by the prostitute that her evening with Client 9 went well. The agent said she had been told the client “would ask you to do things that ... you might not think were safe ... very basic things,” according to the papers, but that Kristen responded by saying, “I have a way of dealing with that ... I’d be, like, listen dude, you really want the sex?”
The prostitution ring arranged sex between wealthy men and more than 50 prostitutes in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Miami, London and Paris, prosecutors said. Four people allegedly connected to the high-end ring were arrested last week.
The club’s Web site displays photographs of scantily clad women with their faces hidden. It also shows hourly rates depending on whether the prostitutes were rated from one diamond to seven diamonds. The highest-ranked prostitutes cost $5,500 an hour, prosecutors said.
The four defendants charged in the case last week were charged with violating the federal Mann Act, a 1910 law that outlaws traveling across state lines for prostitution.
“I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong,” Spitzer said at the news conference. “I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.”
The scandal was bad news not only for Spitzer but for the entire Democratic party in New York. Spitzer went into 2008 intent on taking back the state Senate from the Republicans.
“Today’s news that Eliot Spitzer was likely involved with a prostitution ring and his refusal to deny it leads to one inescapable conclusion: He has disgraced his office and the entire state of New York,” said Assembly Republican leader James Tedisco. “He should resign his office immediately.”
Spitzer clashed with Wall Street executives throughout his two terms as attorney general, launching several prosecutions that rocked major companies earlier this decade. Among other things, he uncovered crooked practices and self-dealing in the stock brokerage and insurance industries and in corporate board rooms, and went after former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso over his $187.5 million compensation package, which Spitzer called unreasonable and unlawful.
He became known as the “Sheriff of Wall Street.” Time magazine named him “Crusader of the Year,” and the tabloids proclaimed him “Eliot Ness.” The square-jawed graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law was sometimes mentioned as a potential candidate for president.
But his term as governor has been fraught with problems, including an unpopular plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and a plot by his aides to smear his main Republican nemesis.
Spitzer had been expected to testify to a state commission he had created to answer for his role in the scandal, in which his aides were accused of using the state police to compile travel records to embarrass Senate GOP leader Joseph Bruno.
His cases as attorney general included a few criminal prosecutions of prostitution rings and tourism involving prostitutes. In 2004, he took part in an investigation of an escort service in New York City that resulted in the arrest of 18 people on charges of promoting prostitution and related charges.
I see “Client No. 9” as a big Hollywood movie. Got it all power, sex, money, etc. Fred Thompson gets to play the “symbolic prosecutor”, don’t know who plays the Gov.
OMG how PERFECT!
Who should play Spitzer? Robert Downey jr?
I’m posting this from newsbusters.org....
Just like the clintons, the writing was on the wall...
“This Iisn’t Spitzer’s First Transgression
March 10, 2008 - 20:45 ET by bias-fighter
How quickly the media “forgets” (whitewashes).
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977250909
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977257380
His performance and rating have been subpar (and that’s being generous)
One of Spitzer’s key campaign pledges was to reform the state budget process. While the state did pass a budget on schedule in 2007, the ultimate results fell short of what many reformers hoped Spitzer would achieve. Newscorp’s The New York Post opined, “Spitzer promised reform, and delivered something completely different” and termed the budget itself “bitterly disappointing.”[30]
Spitzer’s budget quickly turned into a deficit, as by the end of October it was projected the state would run a deficit exceeding $4 billion for the year. During Spitzer’s first year the state payroll increased, aggravating budget problem.[31] Despite increasing the public sector payroll, in late 2007 New York State started leading the nation in lost jobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer
Spitzer proposed a bill that would give illegals licenses.
A 57-page report issued by the Attorney General’s office concluded that Spitzer engaged in creating media coverage concerning Senator Bruno’s travel before any Freedom of Information Law request was made.
The report criticized Spitzer’s office for using State Police resources to gather information about Bruno’s travel and releasing the information to the media
Douglas Muzzio, a Baruch College political scientist, commented that “The Watergate analogy is inescapable.” and now with the latest round, he has become another Clinton.
Before his latest scandal, his approval rating was as low as Bush’s.
http://gothamist.com/2007/08/07/spitzers_scanda.php
“Eliot Spitzer is like the good-looking bouncer in a bar, who is secretly dealing drugs,”
http://www.nymegaphone.com/node/24
Spitzer Filed Legal Brief, Helped Silverstein Win $4.5 Billion WTC Insurance Windfall
http://www.911blogger.com/node/11254
In sum, like Bill Clinton, ES is a corrupt, hypocritical, vengeful, power hungry animal who will say and do anything. He’s the embodiement of at least a controlling portion of the Democratic party. Something the party tries to project onto Republicans with the aid of the “media.”
The full story won’t be reported because the media is useless.”
YOU KNOW WHO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE AS CLIENT #42 ? OH THE IRONY IF ONLY.......
His peckerdillos don’t get the same treatment from the FBI as Klintons did do they? Actually the FBI’s wiretap eqipment had been out of service since 1993,the 1st year of Klinton’s term. Just got it fixed too. hic
PICS???
A 22-year-old escort found on another call-girl Web site claimed to ABC News in a phone interview that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been one of her customers two years ago when he was New York attorney general and that he was a nice guy who tipped well.
"He didn't do anything that wasn't clean," she said, adding that she knew who he was because he had made calls from the attorney general's office in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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