Eliot Spitzer was, oh, I'm sorry, still is (as of this blogging), governor of New York. He was allegedly involved, as a customer, with a prostitution ring; he was taped on a wiretapped phone ordering up a honey for a trip to Washington, DC.
He was the alpha malest amongst the alpha males while New York state Attorney General. He pursued crime on Wall Street and, in a bit of foreshadowing, prostitution rings, and referred to the criminals as betrayers of the public trust.
Well, now, he is the betrayer, and it's not just a personal matter immoral behavior, like that of a husband getting caught with his pants down and someone other than his wife with a lip lock on his love muscle, a la Slick Willy, the former President who was a hard dog to keep on the porch, as they said way back in Arkansas.
Prostitution is a crime, albeit a misdemeanor in New York from what I hear on CNN yesterday, but the business Spitzer frequented may have been involved in money laundering, and that's a federal crime, as is trying to conceal movements of money, and that puts the former "Untouchable" (if only he really didn't want to be touched, he wouldn't have the problems he has now) in a world of legal crap, equal only to the world of marital/personal crap he has entered into now with his wife, Silda. Odds are Sptizer will try to stay in office as long as possible. If he resigns he will have nothing to do but stay home with Silda, an unpleasant thought for him now at best. Of course, she might be out of the house a lot, filling up her personal schedule with divorce attorneys. I wonder if the missus will want to run for the US Senate from New York now.
What the governor of New York does with his Little Gov is of meager interest to me. What is interesting is why he did it, and why he was the way he was? What created the bulldog who was a white horse riding attorney general, pontificating about criminals and their betrayals of public trust? Is this just another example of hypocrisy in a politician? Of hubris? Was he so arrogant that he thought he could what he put others on trial for? Was he self-destructive? Filled with a self-hate because he did things he knew were really, really wrong and just wanted to get caught and bring his darkness to light and his career to an end? There is a definite psychological element when people go on crusades and many times, as in the case of a preacher who sermonizes on the evils of homosexuality only to be caught in a tryst with another man, the crusader reveals himself to be his own target.
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