So Much For Eliot Spitzer
Mar. 10th, 2008 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteThe NY Times is reporting that New York's current governor, Eliot Spitzer, has been linked to a high-end prostitution ring the Feds broke up last week. Unless he can somehow prove this is a complete misunderstanding, or that his enemies are framing him, his career is over (even if he is never convicted). He has been an abysmal governor, mired in scandal and infighting from the start. His ability to govern this state, run to a large degree by a lousy and self-serving state legislature, was already in doubt. Today, it's become non-existent.
What's really sad is that he was a great state attorney general. He stood up to the big corporations and made them back down. He made a difference. Or so it seemed, anyway. I have to wonder if either he's just in way over his head now, or if he fooled us all then. But all those hopes that he would change how things are done in Albany? Gone.
Eliot, you might be wise to quit now.
ETA: He made a statement. He isn't denying it. He didn't come out and say it, but it's pretty clear that this accusation is true.
What's really sad is that he was a great state attorney general. He stood up to the big corporations and made them back down. He made a difference. Or so it seemed, anyway. I have to wonder if either he's just in way over his head now, or if he fooled us all then. But all those hopes that he would change how things are done in Albany? Gone.
Eliot, you might be wise to quit now.
ETA: He made a statement. He isn't denying it. He didn't come out and say it, but it's pretty clear that this accusation is true.
