Another One Bites The Dust…Spitzer to Resign
March 12th, 2008 Posted in Another One Bites The Dust, Eliot Spitzer, Governor, New York, Scandal
Per MSNBC, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer will resign the office of Governor of New York at 11:30PM EDT today. Just another in a long line of politicians.
For your enjoyment, you can watch the video of the name of the title in this post…
March 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Great song - here is a more detailed take of why Spitzer is up the creek - from John P at Commentary . . . read on:
Eliot Spitzer, Crook
John Podhoretz - 03.10.2008 - 18:32
“The thing is, Eliot Spitzer is a crook. I’m not referring to the current prostitution scandal. I’m not referring to the scandal last year involving his senior aides and the leaking of confidential police information to the Albany Times Union. I’m not referring to the threatening phone call he made to the august John Whitehead, retired head of Goldman Sachs, who had the temerity to question a case Spitzer was building against an old friend of Whitehead’s. I’m referring to his conduct dating back to 1994, when he designed a complex scheme involving loans and real estate and collateralized apartments to evade campaign-finance laws so that his own father, Bernard Spitzer, could pay for his campaign as attorney general of New York state. Millions of dollars. And then, in 1998, running for the same office, he did it again. It’s hard to explain, but basically, Spitzer’s father gave him a lot of real estate. He used it to secure loans totaling more than $8 million. Then his father paid back the loans. He was supposed to pay his father back. He said he did. Then he acknowledged he hadn’t. Then somehow it all went away. I’m not a big fan of campaign-finance laws, but they are laws, and they are supposed to apply to everybody.
The rules don’t apply to Eliot Spitzer, or at least, that’s how Eliot Spitzer has acted throughout his public life. Sic transit gloria mundi.” (end quote)
I will add the latin translation - (STGM) basically means that fame is fleeting or one’s earthly glory is limited . . .
March 12th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
It’s great that Spitzer is out. Unfortunately, the Lt Governor, who is to step in, is even more “ultra-liberal” than Spitzer himself. In fact, the author of this article called him so liberal that he is “ultra-moronic”. Anyway, this article is about David Paterson’s stance on police’s ability to defend themselves.
March 13th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Ann Marie–on your personal blog, is it possible their is a problem? I was not able to leave a response, instead recieved “Error-wrong anti-spam word” I also noticed that their were no responses anywhere.
Thanks,
Ron