You cant be a hypocrite if you want to hold public office..you cant preach morals and ethics and then go and do the opposite..his days are numbered as a politician.

When it comes to politics and politicians i say we should stop simply accepting their behavior as is and start holding them to a higher standard. is it fair to the current or future ones? probably not seeing as we have been letting it go on for so long but i believe that the time for real change is upon us and not the hypocrtical change of a politicain talk is cheap action on what one says is what im looking for. so i guess the answer is if he delivered what he said he would or at least put in an honest effort let him keep his title if he did not then so long sucker

if we are going to accept any of the described behaviors as okay/normal, the behaviors will not end and we are complicit. think about it!

He should resign. What he engaged in is illegal. Period.

I hoenstly think he should resign. If by force, so be it. What he did was wrong, no doubt. I agree with your thought on where the funds came from. If it were his person funds used in the transaction, it’s less “bad.” But the bottom line is the guy broke the law. If he hadn’t made his life from bringing down criminals, maybe I’d have a different opinion. It’s simply a shame. to spend a life stopping criminals, building a reputation as a public servant – and to turn around and be no better than the ones you sent to jail. He should be a man and walk away. With that said, I know he wont. Not unless hes forced out, who would?!

Great american liars!
It started from White house.

He can stay, as long as he didn’t lie to his citizens for his own personal gain (a la a former President). The rest he can work out with his family, and good luck with that.

I think he should go, someone who has done so much for fighting crime, even the one he is accused of committing is no excuse in his position, what is to keep him from doing this again. He is not a model citizen and should be punished as would be any of us had we commited this crime

Interesting argument. However, just because it has not been done before, should not stop us from expecting the high moral standard. This story, has a different twist, which is, that he happened to be THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Do I want to set a precedent where an AG (of all people) gets away transporting prostitutes across state lines while trying to hide the money-trail.
And what’s up with his wife standing next to him, yesterday. Somehow, I am supposed to believe that “she is supporting him through these tough times”?

Bing-

love the column…I am not so sure that he should be forced to resign, but I do think that if he wants to keep his law license, he may have to use his resignation as a barganing chip. However, he is in a bit of a quandry as he is at the top of the food chain politically. Unless he can rat someone out above him or figure out a way to leverage political capital(ie: other’s skeletons they would rather leave in the closet) he has earned over the past ten years his days are numbered. I think in an election year, the republicans have been hoping for a bombshell on the other side of the aisle and now they have hiroshima.

This is not going to go away soon, there are still the 60min interviews with Spitzer, the hookers etc…Here comes Leslie Stahl, or maybe they’ll bring back Dan Rather!

As govenor he is responsible to enforce laws. He could have gone to parts of Nevada where no laws would have been broken, but he chose not to.

He should not have to resign. What’s worse? Concealing visits with a sex provider or concealing information about environmental pollution, justifications for war, and improper discharges of US Attorneys, to name a few.

Client #1

Make sure that everyone is afraid of you.

If he was the governor of Nevada, would this even be news?

First off: I enjoy your candor and competency in the world of business and life in general – appreciate it!

In some respect I am disappointed in Eliot for not using more discretion and weighing the consequences of his actions. However, as a nation full of people at the ready to ostracize a man for giving into his natural feelings is somewhat over the top. Are there any politicians in the governments of the world hold true to their values and don’t sway when exposed to the potential power they have over the general public?

Eliot in my eyes is a true American Hero! He has stood up against some of the largest most powerful entities and brought the perpetrators to justice. Indeed he is in a position that needs clear judgment, but so far he has not been found in dereliction of his duties. To that end, he should not resign. Community service for sure, but no resignation.

I truly believe in the fact that we are only human and sometimes make mistakes. Eliot is not a bad person; he just made a bad choice.

A fitting quote from the wise Oscar Wilde: “The only thing I can’t resist is temptation”

Thanks!

so he got it on w/ a “very pretty brunette”, so what. I’m sure the brunette didn’t feel taken advantage of when she cashed her $1000+ per hour check and he’s a loaded ex-lawyer. Who really got hurt here???

Eliot Spitzer, aka Are You Smarter Than a First Grader, has got to resign. This is a man who made a career of nailing some of the Titan’s of Wall Street using wiretaps. So what does he do? He get’s caught in the same trap that he perfected. Stupidity trumps morals any day.

Begone with the scoundrel and feed him to the baying hounds in the press. Larry King just postponed his retirement for another year!!

Let’s get some perspective here: Public is outraged about marine throwing puppy off cliff, yet 50,000 to 1,000,000 Iraqis’ have died and millions more misplaced as a direct result of US intervention. Public is outraged by NY official using prostitution and wants impeachment yet Bush, Cheney, Mukasey, et. all have systematically obliterated civil liberties enshrined in the constitution and lied about it to boot. Yes, he broke the law by hiring a prostitute and should be punished…but when are we going to get angry about the REAL issues we are facing??

Does anyone really think that the big money Wall Street players whom Mr. Spitzer dogged when he was New Yorks AG would let him coast through a governors term and possible Democratic presidential candidacy? You think all that had nothing to do with this scandal coming to light?You dont mess with those folks without some repercussions. He better resign, or there will be many more stories splattered across The Journal and The Post.

Where do you draw the line on criminal activity committed by a lawyer and elected official? Sex with consenting animals? No? What about non-objecting dead girls?
Murder, theft? Or something really, really bad like hate speech?

Eliot is a true hero – long live David!!!!

Well given the nature of his political persona I think it’s only fair that he resigns. The high standards that are imposed on him by the public and media alike at this particular moment are reflective of the high standards that he imposed on others while in office. While it may not have been tax payer money that what was used to pay for the high priced call girls, he financially supported a criminal enterprise and in the process broke the law. Had it been any other political figure or even any of his subordinates he would have condemned thier actions and called for thier resignation if it were within his authority to do so.

I only wish george bush had seen a prostitute or rub shoes with some guy in a toilet, instead of throwing this country into the worst economic time in my lifetime. Destroying American freedoms and killing hundreds of thousands of iraqis for no reason and repeatedly lying to this country so he can line the pockets of his circle. Americans have a problem with sexuality but no problem with killing innocent people. Impeach? Why don’t we all look in the mirror first and go from there.

The problem is that all these people – Spitzer, Larry Craig, etc. – are in positions of power where they are the ones who make the laws! So if what they did is not a big deal, they must work to change the law. Until the laws are changed they must abide by them the same as everyone else.

It’s all about Character, Credibility and Trust. He can no longer be effective and needs to go.

He broke the law. Period. If I was caught with a hooker and it made the news I would be fired from my job…and I am not even a public official. I am shocked to see how many people on this thread are making excuses for his behavior. He is a horrible person. To say he isn’t a bad person – is ridiculous. I don’t cheat on my wife with $1,000/hour hookers…that makes me a good person.

This country has lost its moral compass. This should be an issue of personal values…not of politics. I don’t care if this was a democrat, republican or the mayor of Mars…he broke the law (which he swore to uphold as AG), cheated on his wife – how can you trust him? How can anyone trust him?

IF Spitzer were the CEO of a public company, he’d be forced to resign. If he were a run of the mill employee who turned up on the front page of a local newspaper having gotten busted at the local cathouse, he’d be fired. If he were a school official, he’d be fired – ask any public school teacher, and they’ll tell you you can get fired for much less, like a DUI. If he were a member of Bush’s administration, the calls for resignation would shake down the rafters.

While it may be true that prostitution is rather widely engaged in and not prosecuted, we could say the same thing about drugs. How many people have done a line of coke compared to how many people have actually been arrested for it. Nevertheless, would we all look the other way if the governor was burying his head in a pile of coke on his desk, just because it is his own private business? If any of us got busted for prostitution or drugs, we could argue to the judge until we are blue in the face that the laws are stupid and that these are really private matters and that these are victimless crimes. And then, we will go to jail. The law’s the law. You may disagree with it, but, if you get caught, you pay the price, period.

Well when it comes to the sex, who cares? I think it is funny, but do you know what isn’t funny? He violated the U.S. Patriot Act using a money laundering technique called structuring. This is a technique also used by terrorists and drug dealers and so on and so forth. I know what you will say, “But he was just having sex!” True enough, but he was smart enough not have done something stupid like that, if for no other reason than he is the Governor and as the former Attorney General of NYS and the scourage of Wall St. (Which we deserved!, but none of the money he recovered went to the investors that lost it, it all went to NYS) he knew better and he knew exactly what he was doing, he also knew he was violating the patriot act. So in my opinion, he can have all the blow jobs he wants from the call girls, but he shouldn’t have done it the way he did, it was just arrogance. He should resign or he will be rightfully impeached!!

What makes Spitzer’s crime different is that prostitution supports and is often directly tied in with many other criminal activities — such as drug smuggling, gun-running, organized crime, child kidnappings, etc. This is completely different than what Larry Craig is accused of and way beyond Bill Clinton’s White House affairs. Supporting prostitution and the parasites that feed off this business is not just about hypocrisy (which is bad enough). It’s about the fact that as someone who knowingly supported these rings, Mr. Spitzer helps perpetuate continued criminal activities that go along with that industry — many of which often lead to violent deaths. If you’re an EPA official and you dump chemicals into some stream or creek and get caught, one should resign because you’re helping perpetuate the pollution you’re supposed to fight. Likewise, when one is the top law enforcement official in a state and then goes out of his way to perpetuate so many criminal enterprises by getting involved in one that’s the lynchpin for so many others, you have to resign. If Spitzer had an affair, that would be different. Even if he propositioned a friend’s wife, that would be different. But to knowingly support an organized crime ring — which is what prostitution really is — is completely unacceptable and there’s simply no way such an individual can stay in office. I’m curious as to whether that would change your thinking. I mean the Larry Craig thing is not at all on the same level. As odd and out of place as his behavior was considering the venue, Larry Craig was simply trying to find another consenting adult. He was not perpetuating an entire criminal industry and then pretending to be vigilant about prosecuting it at the same time. Surely, you must see the difference. Spitzer’s offense here is far worse than McGreevey’s even.

The man was AG and was after Prostitution rings. So now that he became Governor he is allowed to disobey the law and use their service? Did he use his position as AG to find a good service and not reveal the ones he may decide to use in the future? Personally I feel it should be legalized, but it ain’t legal and he committed a crime and should not be Governor.

the problem is with his wife…if he was getting it at home he wouldn’t be looking elsehwere…

DID BILL CLINTON RESIGN AFTER HIS LITTLE DITTY W/ MONICA??..AND..
DON’T BRING THAT IRAQ CRAP UP EITHER.. WHAT GEO BUSH IS DOING AS PRES. IS EXERCISING HIS POWERS AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF TO PROTECT THE FREEDOMS OF 200 MIL+ AMERICANS

“If he were a school official, he’d be fired – ask any public school teacher, and they’ll tell you you can get fired for much less, like a DUI.” from Phila John in PA. How does a DUI rate lower on the serious crime scale than prostitution. Prostitution is legal in many countries around the world and in at least one county in this country. We have TV shows and movies that virtually glamorize the industry. However, DUI kills thousands a year and is illegal everywhere. I would be more inclined to see him out of office over a DUI thatn prostitution. I feel very sorry for his family but I don’t see any harm that was done to his constituency. He is not on a soapbox trying to get prostitution legalized against the wishes of the voters. As long as public funds were’nt used leave the man alone. You know he is facing anough trouble at home.

I find it fascinating that the Justice Department is focusing on a Democratic politician in New York, as in Alabama, for what seems to be political purposes.

Is he a scumbag? Yup. Should he resign? I think so, he set himself up as a squeaky clean reformer.

But, the more important question is has the Justice Department been so politicized that they are a tool of the neo-conservatives?

does anybody have the number for the service?

Facts speak for themselves. 1. He made a public confession on March 10. 2. He got stung on february 23. What happened betwen those two dates? What is his overall misgiving? Are damages criminal? How will justice be served? we’ve got to listen to the entire symphony before we critique it.

Craig got stung in July and his misdemeanor was made public in September. (Dates are approximate); his symphony is still playing.

In both cases, who do we tend to believe; the accused or the accuser. What would be the motive for stinging high profile public officials?

In Iraq, our service men and women are prone to snipers. When they get stung, they pay with flesh and blood to protect our miscreants.

In either case, the stung are burdened for life. If one likes to play with risk, our military welcomes you. A hot blistery and sandy outpost in Iraq is there for the taking. Any high profile officials interested???

The liberal media circles the wagons… pathetic.

He should resign immediately!

With his skills as a lawyer and pehchant for adultery, he could easily become a CEO or sit on the board of some company. Why should he waste time being a governor when he can make more money and gain more power by bilking investors and the public for hefty bonuses and little work?

I’m a liberal, but come on. The law is the law, the constitution is the constitution and an oath is an oath. The guy put himself in a position to be held to a higher standard. Why is there any debate here?

He’s a coward! He deserves to lose everything! I dont have a problem with prostitution. Hell, I know some guys that would never get laid if it wasnt around. But this guy prosecuted people involved in prostitution, ruined their lives, took away their freedom, all the while being a client of the trade himself. This is beyond hypocracy. Those that have the power to cast judgement on others should be held accountable to the same standards.

STP is right. It is about character, credibility and trust, and something else. Doing the right thing.

When your in a position like this man, you should be held to even higer standards. It is his responsibility to be more than just the avergae Joe or Josephine. That is why he was hired in the first place. His is a leader. Yeesh!

And Bing you are wrong! It is not refreshing to say I am not going to resign. It is disgusting, selfish and shows a lack of moral character.

Bill Clinton didn’t resign, and he didn’t even bother going to a hotel! It is time for people caught in these situations to resign.

FDR, JFK, WJC….. All great leaders of the 20th Century. Were they compromised as being he most powerful leaders in the free world in the 20th Century. The answer is no. He shouldn’t jump under the bus, nor should we throw him off the top of the mountain. Good men and women are hard to find for for serving in political office.

He has enough problems explaining to his wife and children his personal indiscretion’s. He just happen to have gotten caught in Washington when he should have been in Nevada. This is victimless, harmless and very expensive.

Harvard bread lawyers in this case a proven “supercop” are hard to find. Get off his back. Hey, Uncle ted, the poster child for bad behavior is still around and I’d vote for him again.

As long as a politician is doing his job, reward him with a harem. If he is screwing up, kick him out.

Government noses don’t belong in private affairs. That includes the nose of Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who prosecuted members of prostitution rings. We’re not holding him to a higher standard. We’re asking that he be as accountable as he demanded everybody else be. Change the laws and stop the grandstanding and camera-hogging that accompany the take down of “Houses of Ill-Repute”. Such investigations and prosecutions are a shameful waste of taxpayer money and government resources. We, as a people, need to grow up and stop minding everybody else’s business.

He should resign.There is a cheater liar, and hypocrite.

His money, his life. I wouldn’t step down. This stinks of cheap politics.Hey…he was doing undercover work. Another diversion from the real problems in this country.

He is the chief law enforeement official in the State of New York, and he engaged in illegal activity.

Resignation and total removal from office is absolutely the right remedy

People with money and power will do as they please. Those not caught are simply smarter, for now.

Ummm… I think he committed a felony…

Wasn’t he nailed through suspicious “structuring” activities from a low level banker? The banker noticed odd transactions usually associated with money laundering activies. That is taking small amounts of money out per transaction to avoid suspicion.

This is the same man that prosecuted Wall Street excessively over mishandling money.

Does anyone else find it odd that the banking industry safeguards is the thing that nailed him? His attempt to hide his financial transactions is why he should resign.

Client 9 is a pig…..bulls and bears make money….pigs get…well you know….he did that to wall street many many times. The same should be done to him.

What I really want to know is how in the world can his wife…or for that matter Hillary as well….stand next to the pig that cheats on them and embarasses their complete existance? Come on ladies…stand up for yourselves and earn the publics respect.

Hold your own press conference right after your cheating husband…and announce your distaste and divorce!

I would note that the corporate defense bar has thrived primarily for the last ten years thanks to Mel Weiss, Bill Lerach and Eliot Spitzer. Big Law in Manhattan is going to have to find another source of business, or we’re all screwed.

I think that he should go. Although his holier than though attitude was hard to bear, I feel the disfunction that he put on Wall Street with the inability of bankers and analysts talking was an even greater mistake.

Good bye Eliot

Your an Idiot.

This guy is the biggest hypocrite. He has ruined so many lives for the same reason. He’s never been merciful. He has abused his position in many cases prosecuting people. So he deserves the same.

“the machine that brings people down” and “the Department of Entrapment”?

Eliot Spitzer was a leader of this machine and Department. He lacked ethics and its now been proven for the liberals who are merely disappointed. I agreed with his targets but disagreed with his methods and the hanger-ons who gave him a pass and enjoyed the kill.

He is a fraud. If he is excused, we should excuse Skilling, Ebbers… I say never!

I don’t condemn nor applaud his own personal behavior. However, as a public employee he prosecuted people for doing as he did. If we don’t hold him accountable for doing one thing, while saying another, who in government would we hold accountable for anything? Unfortunately, regardless of the good he’s done, he needs to resign.

Personally, I’d like to see what $4400 for 2 hours looks like. I would have shown up to the hotel with a bag of golf balls and 30 feet of garden hose just as a test to make sure I would get my money’s worth

Peggy Noonan said it best:

“Spitzer made himself famous as a moral avenger who targeted people and tried to ruin them. He was a bully. Now the moral avenger/bully has fallen. He was already finished in New York — he’d done too many things that were excessive, intemperate. Bullying.

He will have to resign because his governorship is never going to work now. It’s over. You can survive if you’re a bully, and you can survive if you’re a punch line, and you can even survive if most everyone dislikes you. But you can’t survive in politics if you’re a despised bully who’s a punchline.”

If you are going to build your career on throwing the proverbial book at people who break the law, all the while offering no sympathy for human failings, then you can expect no less when the wheel comes around and its your turn.

Maybe it is old fashioned, but I do expect our elected officials (and appointed prosecutors) to hold themselves to the same standard that they expect of society in general.

Eliot Spitzer may find forgiveness along the way from family, friends and consituents. But first he needs to face the legal consequences of his actions. No different than what he insisted on all through his legal career.

There’s much more to the story than prosecution. The investigation began regarding illegal wire transfers (for the purpose of concealment) long before investigators knew that it had anything to do with prostitution. Then there is the prostitution itself, and transportation of someone across state lines for the purpose of committing a crime.
You have to ask yourself..”What would AG Eliot Spitzer have done with this guy?”
He is toast.

I think he should go, let’s face it the guy is an idiot. If you are in the business of putting together evidence to make a case against someone for breaking the law, why would you create a trail of evidence which can be tied directly to you. I’ll take a page from OJ’s Book “If I was going to cheat on my wife and not destroy my career, this is how I would do it” 1. I would go under the name ‘Crispin Glover” Please Google, Eliot could be his twin. 2. I would request for call girls from any state with the exception of New Jersey and New York (Too Close to Home). I’m banking on call girls from other states might not be familiar with current governors or ex-state attorneys. Instead of paying the Emperors Club, work out a deal with
the call girl to cut the middleman out after your 1st meeting(she might go for it, she could get together with you during her sick days or annual leave from the call girl service. What? You think you have a better plan.

If a guy in that position is hooking up with prostitutes then that leaves him open for blackmail, thus it compromises his ability to do his job. He’s got to go because his credibility is shot.

No, he should not resign. He should be dealt with like everyone else according to the law (is the US laws the same for everyone?). President Bush committed far worse crimes, lies, not to mention destruction and death, yet no one asks him to resign.

I hear there’s going to be a new reality show called, “I Did Client-9.” Clearly, it’s time for Elliott Spitzer to ring up Elliott Mintz.

I agree will Charles, San Diego CA : March 11, 2008 7:06 pm comment.

EP is a loser.

< I think he should remain in office

Sex between consenting adults, using personal funds. He should stay until the end of his term and run again.

He created a connection between himself and organized crime. That is way more serious for a law-maker than for an ordinary citizen. Therefore he should not only resign he should be prosecuted more vigorously than any ordinary citizen has been for the same offense. Prosecutorial discretion shouldn’t just mean the big fish get off.

If Gov. Spitzer was well liked, this matter would be covered up. Gov. Spitzer has made plenty of enemies, and those people will insist on his resignation. That is the long and short of American Justice, who likes you. Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more people than Gov Spitzer’s pollywacker, did I make my point?

He should stay no matter what the pressure is.

The difference here is that this isn’t just an affair. This is prostitution, an illegal act. He should be prosecuted the way that any other citizen would be and if this causes him to be unable to fulfill his duties (a prison sentence, for example), then he should resign. If the resulting charge is a misdemeanor, then let him keep his job – again, just like any other citizen.

Spitzer is a tenacious prosecutor and from all accounts I have read a brilliant lawyer. If he didn’t know it was a federal crime to purchase a hooker and have her cross state lines, then he isn’t a very bright lawyer and doesn’t know the first thing about federal crime. We all know the latter is bunk so Spitzer is a possible felon at this point he has two options get thrown out of the governors office or resign.

My prediction is he squirms out of the charges on some technical baloney that usually saves his kind. By that I mean powerful people who can assemble a team of excellent lawyers who will try everything money can buy until they find that one typo or an unverifiable statement in a desposition.

It must really be some kind of rush to spend that kind of money for stiffy relief and risk the freakin govenors office. He is a very powerful dreg.

What about the fact that he committed a federal felony? I don’t care what the crime was, felons aren’t even allowed to vote. If he can’t vote, how should he be allowed to stay in office?

Forget the moral question and whether he is good or bad. It isn’t a question of what he does on his own time. Politicians shouldn’t be engaging in behavior where the next step is that someone tries to blackmail him by threating to uncover him. By engaging in secret illegal activity he could be going down the path to even dumber things. Wasn’t that a basic cold war method of creating a spy/informant?

It’s interesting how the unforgivable sex offenses change with time. Out are deserting wife and kids and fathering illegitmate children and shacking up with a homosexual boy toy on the public payroll a la Barney Frank. Now it is the episodic discreet heterosexual encounter while having the nerve to otherwise try to remain a husband and father for his family.

The “he must go because he broke a law” is particularly lame. Fornication (sex between unmarried adults) is still a criminal misdemeanor in Virginia. Like fornication, as the WSJ reported, engaging the services of a prostitute is rarely prosecuted.

I personally don’t care if people use call girls, massage parlors, or whatever. But Spitzer was so sanctimonious, so determined to rise politically by trying to ‘nail’ corporate America in the name of leftist populism, he must fry.

Begone, hypocritical turd.

YES.

He should resign without doubt, I don’t think anyone living a double life can be trusted to do anything especially in making decisions that affect the lifes of the public.

Spitzer campaigned on his squeaky clean reputation and leveraged his personal bio to suggest he could right the wrongs of Albany just like he fixed Wall Street. His reputation WAS his message.

In pursuit of his high minded goals, he epitomized the prosecutorial zeal of a fanatic waging holy war.

Only now do we learn that Spitzer is neither high minded nor is he fanatical. He’s just another hypocrite hiding behind the caricature of the man he never was, wondering why everybody is obsessed with the man behind the curtain. Pay no attention.

He’s a very good man, but a very bad wizard.

The long and the short of this subject is…

Eliot Clinton & Bill Spitzer …

You heard me right, Mr. Bill should have been impeached, & Mr. Eliot has done “his” gig more than once…(Somebody say 10 years?) Now who is calling the Kettle Black? Tell him to hit the street…, lier, womanizer, he had it all, and threw it all away..

Let’s hope Spitzer will now lead a campaign to decriminalize prostitution. I trust he enjoyed his fun while it lasted. Now he should get on with governing.

Just for the record, re. the first comment, Bill Clinton was impeached.

Pssst. Guess what? I don’t care. I didn’t even know who he was before the scandal. I love New York, but take care of it and don’t let me know what happens. In the mean time I’ll worry about the economy, global warming, healthcare, education . . . .

I was appalled by President Clinton and this news was disappointing. None of us are perfect; I don’t believe he should pay the rest of his life but this is certainly a wake-up call. He has a family and why should they pay for his stupidity?

Prostitution is illegal. As a govenor, he is suppossed to uphold the law, not violate it. He is a hypocrite!

It was actually an undercover job

We trust our leaders until they get caught doing something they don’t condone (publicly.) They aren’t our leaders when they are stupid enough, or unlucky enough to get caught. Don’t be stupid, and don’t be unlucky, and we”ll let you stand on the podium.

While far removed from the NY attitudes, I find that every person has their own vices. Often these vices over rule common sense, or even ruin a position they have worked for all their life. (Think Drug/Alchol) While Mr. Spitzer vices have now been exposed, I am not hearing anything about it affecting his performance or position. Much like Clinton, the vices went public, he can’t spend his time on the real issues
of his position. I don’t think he should resign, but the standard he holds other people too will certainly be lowered, as will our respect for him.

As Governor, he was likely paid by the State of New York which derives its income from taxpayers. So, essentially, he did use public monies to pay for prostitution. He is guilty of breaking the law; and, as a public figure, he should be processed at the full extent of the law for violating it and the public trust. We are all accountable for our own actions, and as the CEO of the state of New York he is as guilty as any other criminal who commits the same crime whether he admits it or not. Contrary to his statements, his admission of guilt didn’t go far enough. His crime is not a private manner any more than any other citizen who pays for a crime to be committed and is busted as a matter of public record. All crime is public record.

I agree we get caught up in trite issues that really have no impact upon how well a person does his/her job, regardless of whether it is Clinton or Spitzer. The question we should be asking from a public policy perspective is: should one’s personal conduct impact whether one gets to keep their job and how far do we take the policy. Can someone who smokes and eats saturated fats keep their job at a managed care organization, or a fitness center?

The irony is that all things in life are paired. Pope Spitzer proved he is just as vulnerable as those he bullied out of their jobs. Guess we really all are dispensible.

“Personally, I’d like to see what $4400 for 2 hours looks like.”

- lrn2google

“Your an Idiot.”

- Oh, the irony …

Most people here are not looking at the past. Granted, a mistake is a mistake, but how many people has he crucified on their mistakes?

Spitzer spent taxpayer’s money on trying to find “dirt” on Bill Grosso, his secretary and his family. Government money went to private investigators to see if he had an illegitimate child. Government money went to find out if he had (Bill Grosso) had an affair with his secretary?

All this “research” to trying to make a claim that Grosso got more money than he should have. For Geez Sake- the man worked for the NYSE for 30 dang years. You think he should work for free? Big deal the man had the deal of the century. “Poor wittle Ewiot” came charging in on his trusty white horse looking to impale the man for having an awesome career and making more money than he did.

Oh.. WAIT- little known fact by most people that Eliot brought many many M.A.N.Y. charges against Wall St. VERY few ever stuck. VERY FEW. He was on a crusade that undermined the very trust that he was given.

Yes, I work on Wall Street and think that the prodigal “Wall St. Sheriff” is finally getting burned by doing the same thing he prosecuted others.

You think he had any remorse for the embarrassment and shame he cause others when he brought allegations and impropriety that NEVER stuck?

Burning people on the way up created a Karma that is now giving him what he justly deserves. I do whole-heartily feel bad for the family of this narcissistic monster. They are the innocents that are naturally drawn into the wake of crap a deviant like him leaves behind.

Burn Spitzer. Burn.