Update 2:03 PM CST:
FOX News is reporting that Gov. Spitzer will resign. He’ll be indicted too.
Original Post:
It looks like New York is going to have a new Governor soon:
Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.
Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He scheduled an announcement for 2:15 after inquiries from the Times.
Mr. Spitzer, a first term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform an end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children.
Predictable – but I wonder if he’ll take anyone else down with him. Oh, this is also the man Time Magazine picked as their 2002 “Crusader of the Year“:
Spitzer has spent a career pushing the law as a tool for social change. A passionate and partisan Democrat, he has brought cases against a long line of tough adversaries–organized crime, gun manufacturers, air polluters, Korean grocers who don’t pay minimum wage. His efforts have not always succeeded. Yet he has consistently used laws in novel ways to address wrongs that were in plain view but seemed intractable to others. And, as was the case with Merrill, his endeavors have been about pursuing a path of justice even before the precise nature of a case is clear. “He’s the real deal,” says Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor who hired Spitzer, in his second year at the school, as a research assistant in the 1980s to help on the Claus von Bulow defense. “He has a creative and innovative mind, and he always wants to do what’s right.”
Eliot Spitzer has apparently been doing more than “what’s right.”
Resources:
Official Website of the Governor of New York
Wikipedia – Eliot Spitzer
