Governors these days ....So Eliot Spitzer got nabbed hiring a $1,300-an-hour hooker from New York who met him in a DC hotel room.
That's a lot of money. But only the best for the gov: He went to The Emperors Club, where the top women (with seven diamonds by the names) go for $31,000 a day.
I always wonder: How can someone who has messed with some of the most powerful people in the country and who has legendary enemies both in and out of the public sector be dumb enough to get caught up in a prostitution ring that was under federal investigation?
I don't care who he fucks; I think prostitution ought to be legal. But the political future of someone who was, more or less, one of the good guys is now toast.
As one local official, who I will decline to identify by name, put it to me:
"What's wrong with the old-fashioned discreet affair -- you know, with someone who doesn't work for you and isn't part of a criminal enterprise? It worked for politicians for years."
And what's with dragging his poor wife in front of the cameras with him? Cheap, Eliot. Cheap.
(Oh, and by the way: The Gov appears to be a bit kinky. Check out the documents on the smoking gun . The woman, named "Kristen," who spent several hours with Spitzer, was warned that he might "ask you to do things that you might not think were safe." "Kristen," who is no fool, replied to her handler: "I have a way of dealing with that. I'm like, listen dude, you really want the sex?")
(Oh, and by the way II: Don't the feds have anything better to do than wiretap a prostitution ring and snare Democratic politicians? I mean, Spitzer was an idiot and all, but aren't there terrorists to chase or something?)
Oh, and by the way III: Dailykos notes that it cost less for Spitzer to hire his own call girl than it cost the public to guard Rudy Giulinani when he went off on trysts.
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Dumb, dumb, dumb, Eliot. While I'm tempted to ask whether screwing a high-priced call girl is worse than screwing the country, this still gnaws at me. The guy's got to be smarter than that.
Oh, and what happened to the old-fashioned affair? It went out the window when people started publishing books and holding press conferences about it. Professionals are much more discreet.
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March 11, 2008 08:19 AM
Is Larry Craig still in power? Because I'm thinking that between his wide stance and Barney Frank's hustler ring flap -- in comparison to all these other poor hetero saps -- gay is really the way to go if you want to screw around and stay in office. As long as you keep it of legal age, Mark Foley.
Signed, A Former Hu$tler To the Stars.
PS -- on the night before Valentine's Day??? Really???
Posted by Marke B. | March 11, 2008 10:08 AM
woah -- and lieutenant guv David A. Paterson is actually kind of hot.
Posted by Marke B. | March 11, 2008 12:05 PM
But does he have seven diamonds?
Posted by tim redmond | March 11, 2008 12:30 PM
I think the new Governor of NY will be a more astute politician. Spitzer was named the "steamroller." I know an argument could be made that cheap-labor conservative need a good steam rollin' but it mostly causes a little backlash.
Posted by Maurice Searcy | March 12, 2008 02:37 PM