It is kind of sad seeing these women humiliated by their dirtbag husbands. Just once, I'd like to see one of them step in front of the microphone after the "apologies" of their lousy husbands and then have their own humiliation to serve up.

Something like, "Well, since we're clearing the air, I'd like to apologize for my affair with the pool boy, my personal trainer, our chef, the limo driver, the gardener, the paper boy, the manager at the supermarket, our accountant, and yes, even the female French maid. I know it was irresponsible for me, the wife of an elected official since I'm married to the man that represents the state and I'm sorry for betraying the trust of the people that put him in office...etc...etc..."

Just once.

With Spitzer having endorsed Hillary and also being listed as one of her committed "super delegates," she has been remarkably silent. Hmm.

Yesterday she had a very short sympathetic type statement made, and that was it. Spitzers endorsement has also been wiped off her website..whether she offers something more, remains to be seen.

So now we know who blew the whistle. All done legally by the bank according to the article. What a buffoon, he should have known better by acting suspiciously & then to ask that his name be removed from the wire transfers. Can we say, "RED FLAG!" Duh! ...

So instead of hoping for this:



He was caught like this:

I think they got it right with HO NO! Adding "you did'n" would make the headline too large -- they'd have to get rid of the picture or use a smaller font size.

You know she won't say a damn word more than is absolutely necessary. Bitch has antifreeze in her veins.

according to nytimes, the wifey is urging the disgraced governor to stay on.

i wouldn't be surprised if wife knows about eliot's liaisons with prostitutes (about 8 hookers through the years).

apparently, position is more important, reputation and integrity be damned.

Eliot Mess will hold a press conference at 11:30 this morning where he is expected to resign.

I, just once, would love for one of these women to just off and slap the cheating bastard in the middle of the press conference.

What an idiot! Rising star of the party completely derailed by an inability to keep his pants zipped. Yep, being a straight, married guy really is the path to moral purity.

At least it looks like he is actually resigning, unlike Craig and Vitter (who has admitted being involved in the EXACT same crime), or, for that matter, Bill Clinton. Think about it - a Clinton resignation in 1999 would mean never having elected Bush.

Jokester/blogger Barry Crimmins:

"For those of you flooding the blogosphere with descriptions of Spitzer's demise as 'tragic,' I remind you that he was all for the Iraq war. He did nail a few Wall St fat cats but put away exponentially more poor people with his merciless prosecutions of drug law violators, replete with demands for malicious sentences. He came to Albany as a reformer and was almost instantly caught using state cops to spy on a political opponent. When Lt. Governor David Paterson takes over, it will be an upgrade."

http://www.barrycrimmins.com/index.php?pag...amp;display=686

It looks like the only good thing Spitzer did in his tenure as Governor was to name David Patterson as his Lt. Governor. The shame is that a blind black man would have never stood a chance of winning on his own. From what I know of patterson, we at least have one thing to thank Spitzer for.

George, since some OSers have talked about karma & other cosmic forces on other threads & here, maybe the stars have just aligned perfectly for Patterson to finally shine. It appears that fate is already kissing and embracing him! Good for him!

So all 3 cable news stations are showing his motorcade travel through mid day mid town Manhattan traffic going to his news conference. I feel so terrible for his wife and children. I mean how arrogant and stupid can you be? He's making the right decision. People are pointing out Larry Craig and others, but did others use tax payer money for their crimes as is alleged with Spitzer?

Well...its official. The handing over of power to new Gov Paterson will take place on Monday, March 17th. The delay is so that Paterson can put together the group of people he want as his advisors.

Did anyone see the side by side picture of the news conference when Jim McGreevy and his wife stood to announce to the world his transgressions, and when Spitzer and his wife appeared. It was eerily similar. Both Spitzer and McGreevy had the same color suit and the same color tie and same color striped pattern on the tie. Deena McGreevy and Silda Spitzer had on the same blue color suit jackets.

The only difference, Terp, is that Mrs. Spitzer seemd to be truly blinsided by this. Mrs. McGreevey knew what her hubby was up to. If she didn't, she was the ONLY person in the state of New Jersey who didn't.

Dina's a lesbian. You'll just have to trust me on this one.

Oh geez. Now we have Geraldine Ferraro saying David Patterson is only where he is today because he's lucky enough to be both black and blind.

I'd hit it for $4K a hour

Um, wasn't Craig flying on official business when he decided to cruise for sex in Minneapolis's airport? That sounds like taxpayers' money to me!

Seriously, I don't care about the taxpayer's money; he's a multimillionaire and obviously paid for the prostitutes out of his own funds. Same with Craig, who I assumed paid his misdemeanor fine, etc., with his own funds. I'm far more worried about the billions that are being blown in Iraq, the billions being "lent" or "auctioned" to the banks, the millions we're losing every day because our dollar is turning into tissue paper, etc.

She should beat the shit out of him and who could blame her if she did.
Don't feel bad,New York because as a citizen of Detroit,I had to sit through a state of the city address by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick,last night.For those of you who are unfamiliar with this scandal Mayor Kilpatrick and the city of Detroit were sued by two former police officers who blew the whistle on the mayor's extramarital affairs and illicit activities.Activities which may have resulted in the murder of an exotic dancer.There's so much more but it would take too much time to tell you.Anyway,Kilpatrick played the race card last night even though the 2 officers who sued him are African American.In fact just about every plaintiff and witness involved in every aspect of the lawsuits and criminal investigation are African American.The mayor said he received death threats and said he was barraged with shouts of the N word from several people.Of course the audience in Orchestra Hall was packed with all of his supporters and people who have benefited(mostly monetarily just from knowing him.) Anyway,I would gladly take your governor over this egotistical,arrogant jack-ass anyday!

Not to hijack the thread, but yes, Kwame Kilpatrick's situation sounds really awful. His now former chief of staff and he were having an affair for a while, she was texting him love and mash notes on a city-owned phone, they both lied about the affair under oath, and he refuses to resign. On top of which, earlier this year, after the whole scandal had exploded, he STILL went down to South Carolina (or was it Virginia), without his wife and kids, and then checked into a hotel with an unnamed woman (his ladyfriend?), got massages, and so on. And one result of his lies and so on is that instead of settling with some cops who were suing Detroit, the city ended up having to pay out $9 million it didn't have. Is this right? He's really, really bad news, Eddie. I totally agree.

The Spitzer situation is also bad, though, because he set himself as a reformer, and went on a moralistic tirade about prostitution.

One other note: David Paterson is supposedly good on gay issues, and refused to support NYS anti-discrimination laws unless they protected lesbians and gays. He also supposedly mentioned gay marriage as far back as 1994! If the state Dems can win a majority in the Senate while Paterson is governor, New York could become the first state to enact gay marriage by legislation, as opposed to judicial decision, and signs point to Paterson being the one to sign it into effect (shades of Eugene Sawyer, the late acting mayor of Chicago, who signed gay rights into law after Harold Washington's death).

Mr.Paterson sounds very promising!

Well he id definitely gay friendly and supportive. As I mentioned earlier in the thgread he played basketball with us and then-G-vernor Cuomo in the 1994 Gay Games here in NYC. Not sure if he'll be able to enact any gay marriage laws as I'm not sure the democrats can gain enough of a majority in the NYS Legislature, especially after this scandal.

Anyway to lighten things up, here's a list from Gawker.com of the best potential NY Post headlines regarding the scandal.

1. No C*nt's Free for Old Men
2. Twat Were You Thinking
3. Head of State
4. Tainted Gov
5. Up Spitz Creek
6. Loose Lips Sink Spitz
7. From Blowjob to No Job
8. Spitzer Swallows

Vote for your favorite here:

http://gawker.com/366382/top-8-spitz-hits-vote-for-the-best

Dina McGreevey, the former wife of the Gay Governor, must have been the happiest woman on the planet this week. She was on so many shows. I guess she is now the go-to expert on wronged spouses. Plus it gave her multiple opportunities to hawk her book. She was a bigger (media) whore than the girl Spitzer was banging.

Geez, David Paterson is just sworn in as Governor and now he too is already admitting a "two to three year" affair with a woman? He's the opposite of Spitzer though. While Spitzer was spending big bucks on his gal pal, Paterson was doing it at the Days Inn on 94th and Broadway.

Well the be fair that was his staff's idea of a practical joke...he thought he was at The Plaza.

Honestly why didn't he just give her a shout out and have her stand up and take a bow at the inauguration.

Perhaps she was on her back at that moment.......

Damn this story gets more bizarre all the time. Now Paterson has admitted to many affairs with several women (including one who was employed by the State of New York) during his marriage. Paterson told the Daily News, "I am not currently having an affair, however." This stuff makes me laugh.

Jon Steward made fun of the headline euphemism "Spitzer linked to prostitution ring" -- "Linked? Through his penis?"

You my friend are a wise sage, indeed!...I couldn't stop laughing this morn when I saw the title to this article: Spitzer's prostitute a 'Girl Gone Wild'

And now that Joe Francis is outta jail (but who will probably be back in the slammer soon!) he's trying to capitalize on this whole circus of events!

You've hit the nail on the head TOFSU!

Looks like US Senator Debbie Stabenow's husband, Thomas Athans, got caught up in a prostitute sting in February. Athans is a founder of TalkUSA, and before that was affiliated with Air America, and Democracy Radio. Prostitution that involves consenting adults shouldn't be a crime. I feel bad for Stabenow....

You can't make this stuff up:

Like I always say, those Big Beavers will always get ya! Stay away from big beavers!

I'm shocked I say! Shocked!

Me thinks he was entraped, just like the governt use to and maybe still does go after notable black politicians. Here is another take on the subject:
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Politically directed dragnet snares New York Governor Spitzer
By Bill Van Auken
12 March 2008
New York’s Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer is faced with mounting demands for his resignation after being exposed as the client of a high-priced call-girl ring.The revelation, first exposed by the New York Times web site Monday morning, has unleashed a predictable deluge of media coverage, a noxious blend of prurience and prudery.Underlying it all has been a tone of barely concealed glee at the spectacle of a former state attorney general known as an unforgiving and sanctimonious “crusader” and once hailed as the new “Eliot Ness” being caught in a sex scandal.Nowhere was this more pronounced than on Wall Street, where Spitzer had made his national reputation—and not a small number of powerful enemies—by pursuing some of the wealthiest men in America. When news of the scandal broke on cable TV, traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange erupted in cheers.I have no political sympathy for Spitzer, but I am not inclined to join in the celebration of his public humiliation, especially when it is apparent that Spitzer’s downfall is the outcome of a politically motivated dragnet directed by the Bush administration.There is no question but that Governor Spitzer engaged in personally reckless behavior. But as a political matter, that is far less important than the issues raised by the role played by the Bush administration in organizing the political destruction of a man who happens to be the elected chief executive of the state of New York.The Washington Post on Wednesday provided an indication of the lengths to which the Bush administration went to snare the New York governor in a scandal that would likely end his political career. The Post reported: “Weeks before a hotel meeting with a prostitute that threatens to derail his career, the FBI staked out New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer at the same hotel in an unsuccessful effort to catch him with a high-priced call girl, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation.“The FBI placed a surveillance team on Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel for the first time on Jan. 26, after concluding from a wiretapped conversation that he might try to meet with a prostitute when he traveled to Washington to attend a black-tie dinner, the source said Tuesday.”Largely lost in the torrent of media moralizing and salaciousness is one rather significant and troubling fact: It appears that the governor of New York did not get caught up in a prostitution investigation, but rather, the prostitution ring got caught up in an investigation of Eliot Spitzer.According to a report published Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal, the FBI began a probe of Spitzer in October 2007, after his bank “filed ‘suspicious activity’ reports on the New York governor with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.”Citing a federal law enforcement official and a lawyer involved in the case, the Journal said that Spitzer’s bank detected the transfer of large amounts of cash from his account, triggering suspicions that the governor could have been “engaged in ‘structuring,’ a money-laundering technique in which transactions are kept beneath $10,000 to avoid federal reporting rules.”The report noted that in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, there has been a concerted federal crackdown on money laundering, and that banks have stepped up the filing of reports with the government that “often include details of transactions done by innocent people.”The Journal added that Spitzer’s supposedly “suspicious transactions” were “a major part of the investigation,” and that it is unclear whether “federal investigators were engaged in a crackdown on the prostitution ring when Mr. Spitzer entered their sights as an alleged client of the ring, or whether Mr. Spitzer’s transactions helped trigger a probe of the prostitution operation.”An account given by the New York Times Tuesday clearly suggests that the latter is the case. According to the Times, the bank reports on Spitzer’s transactions were first investigated by a Long Island, New York office of the Internal Revenue Service, which found that the New York governor had transferred thousands of dollars into what appeared to be dummy or shell corporations which conducted no real business.This pattern, according to the Times version of events, “suggested possible financial crimes—maybe bribery, political corruption, or something inappropriate involving campaign finance.”As a result, the case was passed to the FBI and federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who obtained permission from the US attorney general to proceed with a political corruption investigation. Their inquiries quickly revealed that there was no bribery or misappropriation of funds.At that point, there was no legitimate reason for the US attorney general to press ahead with an investigation of the governor of New York. One does not yet know whether the Bush administration had reason to believe—based on prior surveillance or inside information—that Spitzer was involved with call-girls. But once the investigation had the dirt it was looking for, the high-powered political corruption unit of the US attorney of the Southern District of New York, together with the FBI, made a federal case out of the kind of matter usually handled by the local vice squad. It recruited a former prostitute from the escort service patronized by Spitzer and obtained court-ordered wiretaps.To make it a federal case, the government had to invoke a discredited 1910 statute known as the Mann (or White Slave) Act banning the interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes.” It then deployed resources generally reserved for a major terror investigation.The result was a federal complaint unsealed March 6 charging four individuals with conspiracy to violate prostitution statutes and to launder money gained through prostitution. Significantly, the FBI and the US attorney announced the charges together with an agent of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigative Division, the agency that launched the probe against Spitzer in the first place.Nowhere in the complaint, however, is Spitzer named. Rather, federal law enforcement officials leaked to the press that an individual referred to as “client 9” in a summary of information gained through wiretaps of the call-girl ring’s telephones was the governor of New York. The summary included extensive and, in some cases, lurid details about “client 9’s” phone conversations that have no seeming relation to the case being made.The media now gloatingly refers to Spitzer as “client 9.” But who are clients 1 through 8? The same transcripts make reference to a client 10, and presumably there were quite a few others engaged in precisely the same activity as the New York governor. Given the $5,500-an-hour price tag, it is safe to bet that at least some of them are prominent figures in business, finance or political circles.A political hit?This case raises serious political issues.It supposedly began as an investigation triggered by a bank report filed to comply with stiffer federal requirements imposed post-9/11 as part of the “war on terror.” But doesn’t it seem likely that someone at the bank would have recognized the name Eliot Spitzer and concluded that it was highly improbable that the multi-millionaire Jewish governor of New York was part of an Al Qaeda sleeper cell?Then it was transformed into a political corruption probe, supposedly pursuing possible misuse of campaign funds. But why? The amount of money involved hardly justified a high-level federal investigation.Clearly, this new angle ran into a dead end once the investigators traced the money to the call-girl ring. At this stage, a decision was made to go ahead anyway with a new case that had nothing to do with political corruption, but which severely compromised the New York governor, who quickly became the focus of a criminal case in which he was not even named.Whether the entire matter began merely as a routine bank investigation is open to question. It is hard to believe that no one knew about Spitzer’s patronizing of prostitutes, given his high public profile and 24-hour-a-day security detail.What would be the political motive for setting such a trap? On his way up the political ladder, Spitzer made some powerful and bitter enemies. As New York state attorney general, many of his targets were on Wall Street, including New York Stock Exchange President Richard Grasso, whom he publicly censured for his $187.5 million salary, leading to Grasso’s resignation. He threatened such figures as Goldman Sachs’ former chairman John Whitehead and Hank Greenburg, former chairman of insurance giant AIG.US Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue called his legal tactics “the most egregious and unacceptable form of intimidation that we have seen in this country in a long time.” It is hardly unlikely that not a few people with substantial political influence in Washington had an interest in exacting retribution for these methods.Within Washington itself, there are also clearly identifiable motives for pursuing this case. Under the Bush administration, the US Department of Justice has, as New York attorney Scott Heron pointed out on the Harpers Magazine web site, prosecuted 5.2 Democrats for every Republican, and many of these Republicans were pursued only because they were caught up in cases against Democrats. Moreover, these prosecutions have in many instances been timed to coincide with the electoral cycle. Such was the case with the corruption prosecution of Alabama’s Democratic governor, Don Siegelman, which Republican insiders have indicated was instigated by Bush’s former chief advisor, Karl Rove.The controversy over the firing of nine US Attorneys that gripped Washington last year stemmed in large part from similar cases in which Rove and others sought to promote politically motivated prosecutions of Democrats. Considering the peculiar course taken by the Spitzer case, there is ample reason to suspect that it represents just such a political hit job by the Bush administration.Two central political questions emerge from the entire sordid Spitzer affair. The first is a recurrent theme within American politics: the use of sex scandals as an instrument of political retribution and manipulation—from Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky through the arrest of last June of Republican Senator Larry Craig in a men’s restroom for allegedly soliciting an undercover cop.All of these affairs express the degeneration of both big business parties and the media, which substitute scandal-mongering and character assassination for any genuine and open debate of policy and issues. The hand-wringing and feigned outrage over the personal sexual conduct of this or that politician—combined with the media’s dissemination of lurid details—all have the effect of debasing the political environment.These cases also serve to distract public attention from the real crimes being carried out in Washington, as well as Albany and other state capitals: The continuation of wars of aggression that have claimed millions of lives and are costing $12 billion a month, the wholesale attacks on democratic rights and massive spying on the American people, and the subordination of the social interests of working people to the wealth accumulation of a narrow financial elite.The other question that deserves careful consideration is the way in which the Spitzer affair reflects the immense growth of government surveillance over every aspect of life in America. The kind of information that flowed from the New York governor’s bank into the hands of federal investigators is regularly collected through the monitoring of financial transactions of millions upon millions of Americans, along with their emails, telephone calls and travel information under the domestic spying operation run by the secretive National Security Agency.Under the pretext of waging a “global war on terror,” the Bush administration has demanded unrestricted access to this information, and the Democratic Party has acquiesced again and again. The Spitzer case shows to what effect such information can be used.If a politically powerful and immensely wealthy individual like Spitzer cannot protect himself from this increasingly Orwellian state spying apparatus, what about the average citizen?

Jeez, doesn't this Van Auken guy know about paragraphs? This is impossible to read.