Eliot Spitzer – No Longer Mr. Clean??
Posted on March 11, 2008
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer (New York) has been linked to a prostitution ring according to ABCNews. It appears that Gov. Spitzer has been visiting prostitutes in D.C. in his spare time.
According to the story;
Last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation called the Emperors Club. The club charged up to $5,500 an hour for one if its prostitutes, who were rated on its Web site on a scale of one to seven diamonds.
According to a federal complaint, more than $1 million was laundered through the ring over four years.
Administration officials would not say whether this was the ring with which the governor allegedly become involved. The federal complaint mentions an Emperors Club suspect identified as “Client 9.”
Federal law enforcement sources confirmed that Spitzer was the Client 9 named in the complaint. Client 9 seems to have allegedly spent about $4,300 on the services of a prostitute identified only as Kristen. He paid for her to travel: “train tickets, cab fare from the hotel and back, mini bar or room service, travel time and hotel.”
There have been calls already from some of his political opponents to resign and as of now there are conflicting reports on whether he just might.
Oh yeah, one other thing.
Notice I haven’t mentioned his political affiliation yet.
It is because ABC saw fit NOT to mention it either. I noticed on the screens of CNN that the “D” wasn’t included after his name either.
Important rule of thumb is that usually when this happens it is because the person is a Democrat.
Good call on this one because he is!
Hopefully he will do his state some good and resign from office before he becomes further marginalized and ineffective.
- Thai
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it wasn’t just his spare time ;o
Thai –
Just one more in a long list of reasons I wouldn’t trust a politician to get wet if he fell out of a boat.
Agree with Marlin. Somebody somewhere stated he’d paid for his fun out of his own pocket. Taxpayer dollars not touched… that’s if you’ll discount that the travel expenses to his rendevous were business related so…
I’ve compiled a list of things one should hide when in the presence of a politician lest they be run off with or otherwise violated (and you can put a D or an R after pretty much any of them):
Liquor
Gay Men
Money
Prostitutes
Rights
Ethics
Values
Honesty
Integrity
(feel free to add your own)
Politicians should be required to undergo an annual performance review like most American workers. And most of them should be on a 30 day probationary PIP.
Oh, I forgot to add one obvious item to my list.
Minors
True Dave. Very true.
This, from the Washington Post, hammers home how long politicians have been trying to convince us that, ‘we’re not ethical. honest! why won’t anybody believe us?!’
“Sex scandals have been tainting American politicians and titillating the public for nearly as long as there have been American politicians and publics. In 1797, former Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton confessed to a long affair with the married Maria Reynolds after a pamphleteer published the couple’s love letters. The episode dented Hamilton’s reputation at the time, but hasn’t damaged his standing as a Founding Father.”