Spitzer Linked to Prostitution RingGov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials and now the rest of the world that he had been involved in a prostitution ring. Of course he apologized to his family and those whose trust he violated, but when it's all said and done, this man RIGHT HERE will be the new Governor of New York:
With David Paterson, the blind African American politician currently serving as Lieutenant Governor, maybe 2008 will see Black men running the show in DC with Barack, Deval Patrick in Massachusetts, and this brother in Hillary's state. To make things even more interesting, Governor Spitzer is a superdelegate... for Clinton!
David Paterson is a former State Senator who evokes mixed feelings in New York political circles and particularly in his native Harlem. Spitzer chose him based on his personal liking for, and confidence in, him.
Here's a profile of Paterson in the New York Observer in 2006:
State Senator David Paterson’s bid to be Eliot Spitzer’s candidate for Lieutenant Governor and campaign-trail partner was launched last month in a flurry of confusion and political intrigue. It stunned his Harlem-based world, and left him for a few days opposed by a candidate who had been endorsed by his wife and father. And when things settled down, Mr. Paterson unsettled some of Mr. Spitzer’s supporters with a public promise of a “Paterson-Spitzer administration.”
It seems the brother may have been more clairvoyant than people realized.
Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. A first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married, has three children, and was named by Time Magazine as "Crusader Of The Year" for all his prosecutorial good deeds.
Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved.
He had a difficult first year in office, rocked by a mix of scandal and legislative setbacks. In recent weeks, however, Mr. Spitzer seemed to have rebounded, with his Democratic party poised to perhaps gain control of the state Senate for the first time in four decades. Most people, however, never realized that he had a sex addiction that would finally cause him to hit rock bottom!
Mr. Spitzer gained national attention when he served as attorney general with his relentless pursuit of Wall Street wrongdoing. As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.
In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.
“”This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. ”It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.”
Albany for months has been roiled by bitter fighting and accusations of dirty tricks. The Albany County district attorney is set to issue in the coming days the results of his investigation into Mr. Spitzer’s first scandal, his aides’ involvement in an effort to tarnish Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top Republican. [CNN]
David Paterson is a former State Senator who evokes mixed feelings in New York political circles and particularly in his native Harlem. Spitzer chose him based on his personal liking for, and confidence in, him.
Here's a profile of Paterson in the New York Observer in 2006:
State Senator David Paterson’s bid to be Eliot Spitzer’s candidate for Lieutenant Governor and campaign-trail partner was launched last month in a flurry of confusion and political intrigue. It stunned his Harlem-based world, and left him for a few days opposed by a candidate who had been endorsed by his wife and father. And when things settled down, Mr. Paterson unsettled some of Mr. Spitzer’s supporters with a public promise of a “Paterson-Spitzer administration.”
It seems the brother may have been more clairvoyant than people realized.
Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. A first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married, has three children, and was named by Time Magazine as "Crusader Of The Year" for all his prosecutorial good deeds.
Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved.He had a difficult first year in office, rocked by a mix of scandal and legislative setbacks. In recent weeks, however, Mr. Spitzer seemed to have rebounded, with his Democratic party poised to perhaps gain control of the state Senate for the first time in four decades. Most people, however, never realized that he had a sex addiction that would finally cause him to hit rock bottom!
Mr. Spitzer gained national attention when he served as attorney general with his relentless pursuit of Wall Street wrongdoing. As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.
In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.
“”This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. ”It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.”
Albany for months has been roiled by bitter fighting and accusations of dirty tricks. The Albany County district attorney is set to issue in the coming days the results of his investigation into Mr. Spitzer’s first scandal, his aides’ involvement in an effort to tarnish Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top Republican. [CNN]