(2008-03-10) — News that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer may be accused of a rendezvous with a pricey prostitute in a Washington D.C. hotel on the eve of Valentine’s Day has shocked his party’s faithful, who can hardly believe that a Democrat, or a state governor, left the nation’s capital with less money than he had on arrival.
According to a 47-page affidavit unsealed by federal prosecutors today, a man referred to as Client 9 (allegedly Gov. Spitzer) paid a woman about $4,300 in a D.C. hotel.
A spokesman from the prosecutor’s office said, “Typically, when a Democrat Governor comes to the nation’s capital, he’s got his hat in hand and winds up leaving town with a bunch of money. The fact that Spitzer brought money into the District, gave it to a taxpayer, and left with less cash in his pocket was a red flag for us.”
Gov. Spitzer, who made his reputation as a hard-charging prosecutor, appeared to have tears in his eyes at a brief news conference today during which he stood with the mother of his three children and acknowledged a personal indiscretion and failure to “live up to his own standards.”
“I can never get that money back,” said Gov. Spitzer, “but I can work to rebuild the trust of the voters who have relied upon me to, in fact, bring home the bacon from Washington.”
58 responses so far ↓
1 mindknumbed kid // Mar 10, 2008 at 7:55 pm
It’s hard to believe a democrat would willingly leave Washington…
2 Scott Ott // Mar 10, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Now, that’s funny.
3 mindknumbed kid // Mar 10, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Maybe he was just getting his hair cut? Not much more the Edwards reportedly has paid.
4 RedPepper // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:01 pm
What happens in D.C. , stays in D.C. …
… or not …
5 camojack // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:05 pm
In some ways, that’s unusual…but in others, it’s business as usual.
6 mindknumbed kid // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:07 pm
ahh, the appearance of tears - so sad about getting caught….bleepin’ VRWC strikes again.
7 Fred Sinclair // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:24 pm
mkk #1 WoW! Not only is that funny, but although it may not be a first, it’s the very first I’ve seen - getting a posted direct comment by Scott himself. editorial inserts yes, but your comment funny as it is (and it is) is made even funnier by Scott. I doff my cap in admiration.
Heirborn Ranger
8 RedPepper // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:28 pm
mkk #3: Wrong Edwards, mkk. Governor Spitzer wasn’t modeling his behavior on Senator Edwards. Perhaps you were confusing The Breck Girl with former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards .
“The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy”. — Edwin Edwards, 1983
n.b. : Edwards is currently writing his memoirs while in federal prison.
9 prettyold // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Did his voice break ? Did he bite his lip? Did he sob?
Oh come on now guys, you know he’s sorry ………. That he got caught.
Parking dance We danced first,in my day.
10 mindknumbed kid // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:31 pm
And in other news cHillary (who trails Obama in the race for her party’s nomination) proposed that he become her running mate? Now that is desperation on display folks! Maybe she should consider throwing herself at him instead, he seems to have been in the driver’s seat from the get go.I tell you, it takes guts to make that offer - in my humble opinion.
11 prettyold // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I’ll bet Elliot won’t forget to get his wife a really really nice Valentine Gift next year.
compensation Lund $4,300
12 prettyold // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:42 pm
cHillary has cHutspa!
13 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Looks like that lady got her government check early and it is a whole lot larger than $300.
Dagnabit, and here I do not qualify for getting the Uncle Sam rebate check. To old to go into such a high paying industry. sigh
14 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:15 pm
re:9
Prettyold, you think Clinton bit his lip-well take a gander at Spitzer
Readers, don’t pass this up-it will make your day
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07kUa3FgsWeza/340x.jpg
15 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:16 pm
spitzer stole my post
16 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Re:9
prettyold
If you think Clinton bit his lip, well take a look a da’ gov. He nearly swallows his whole head with his lip
readers, this is a must see
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07kUa3FgsWeza/340x.jpg
17 prettyold // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I Love it . Spitzer bit both lips.
Who said “the bigger the are ,the harder they fall?”
18 prettyold // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:27 pm
And here I thought Politicians were Prostitutes!!
19 Terry_Jim // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:38 pm
RE: http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07kUa3FgsWeza/340x.jpg
Was that photo at the press-er today,
or after his wife tore his lying lips off?
——-
Heard Charles Krauthammer this evening skewer Spitzer and his ilk for using their wives as props when they stand before the press.
I agree- it is disgusting,
she’s got enough embarassment already than to stand up with the
s#!+ head at a press conference.
20 RedPepper // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:54 pm
prettyold #11: Actually, if you read the story closely, it looks as though his tryst with “Kristen” was Eliot’s Valentine’s Day gift to his wife this year !
Conversations were recorded about someone identified as “Client 9,” including that a prostitute identified as “Kristen” should take a train from New York to Washington for a tryst on the night of Feb. 13, according to an affidavit.
A law enforcement source in Washington who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that “Client 9″ was Spitzer and that he met with “Kristen” in a Washington hotel room just two hours before Valentine’s Day.
Apparently, Governor Spitzer was just giving his wife a night off …
21 mindknumbed kid // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I am obligated to post something, the wv thing is “sen Clinton”, no comment is neccessary!
22 mindknumbed kid // Mar 10, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I’m not too sure that the “professional” he did business with is a taxpayer, well I suspect that there is a handful of cash under the tables as well as the “package” that arrived. Maybe she claims all of those tips….right!
23 Fred Sinclair // Mar 10, 2008 at 10:15 pm
With HillBilly, Inc. as his mentor or role model I shouldn’t be surprised if the DNC puts Spitzer’s name in the hat for the POTUS nomination in 2012.
Heirborn Ranger
24 onlineanalyst // Mar 10, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I guess that Spitzer (D) is no longer on Madame Hillary’s short list for US AG when she seizes control of the White House through the coup of the harpies.
Imagine: The Queen of the Mao jacket has wiped out all references to Spitzer (D) from her campaign website. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
25 Fred Sinclair // Mar 10, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Rove on Hannity just now- Hannity read a puff piece on Rove in today’s NYT.
Rove responded with “What have I done wrong that would cause the NYT to say nice things about me?”
I just thought that was hilariously funny, in the ballpark with mkk’s comment in #1.
Heirborn Ranger
26 PanamaRed // Mar 11, 2008 at 12:33 am
Its about time a politician caught with more than his finger in the cookie jar has to pay the price for screwing the public. I can’t wait to see the spin on this one but the chattering room classes seem to think all is well in NYC as Spitzer was merely paying for the expertise of a young lady whereas a Republican would have chosen a child.
Anyone who thinks that you can be rational with a liberal is certifiably insane. They have torn their own party apart, cheated in voting, lied in public (Oh, no sin for a politician, my bad) and done everything they have accused President Bush of and yet have no shame. Sociopath fits the Democrat party elite as sure as stink fits a skunk, but the skunk isn’t to blame, he had no choice.
27 gafisher // Mar 11, 2008 at 5:54 am
OLA Re#25: “[Hillary]… wiped out all references to Spitzer (D) from her campaign website.”
She’ll forgive him. The $4300 will be listed as a campaign donation, and Kristen is obviously a bundler.
28 DocFarmer // Mar 11, 2008 at 6:25 am
Now now, you’ve all got it wrong here. Sptizer was OBVIOUSLY lobbying for a new minimum wage of $4300 per hour, in order to eliminate poverty in America!
29 RedPepper // Mar 11, 2008 at 6:52 am
For those who are not residents of the Vampire State, as we here affectionately call New York, this editorial contains some background information about Eliot Spitzer’s career. An example:
In perhaps the incident most suggestive of Mr. Spitzer’s lack of self-restraint, the then-Attorney General personally threatened John Whitehead … “I will be coming after you,” Mr. Spitzer said, according to Mr. Whitehead’s account. “You will pay the price. This is only the beginning, and you will pay dearly for what you have done.”
Fwiw, it’s also a pretty good editorial …
30 RedPepper // Mar 11, 2008 at 7:14 am
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
~~Proverbs 16:18
31 MargeinMI // Mar 11, 2008 at 7:37 am
Maggie, I saw your shout out-I’ve been here, just lurkin’. I’ve been doing my best to win the contest Fred and gafisher were talking about a few threads ago (the try to get a decent job in Michigan, not the try to survive driving through north country with ‘D’ bumper stickers). I had an interview the other day and went for a pre-employment physical yesterday. Wish me luck! The $$ isn’t quite what I need, but it’s better than squat, which is what I’ve been making for a long time. Anyway, it may not be a decent job (although much more decent than ‘Kristen’s), but I won’t have to leave the state to do it!
Btw, happy birthday to me!
32 boberinyetagain // Mar 11, 2008 at 7:51 am
Happy Birthday Marge!
The louder they yell about something (corruption, prostitution, gambling, homosexuality, drugs, take your pick of “sins”) the likelier it is that they are hiding something/afraind of something that they see in themselves and, if such things were not roundly and loudly condemned then they might..just might….
Even crusaders just can’t help themselves. To participate (in whatever) is just way too much fun.
light cornell, like regular cornell but with extra water added
33 mig // Mar 11, 2008 at 7:56 am
I was gonna wish you a Happy Birthday Marge!!
Arrogance. That’s what brought him down. Too many Law and Order episodes. He thought he was indispensable. He got cocky.
What would cause you to ’stand by your man’? Their daughters? The income? It just seems like the daughters will pay the price for their fathers crime, he’ll either be a Clintonista or a toe tapping Craigster.
I don’t think anybody really cares that he cheated on his wife. I think people do care that their gov. is a sleaze but mostly because he would ruin his competition with an indictment, but never take it to trial. He would ruin reputations with innuendo and slander in legal form.
34 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 11, 2008 at 8:15 am
As they say, “What goes around comes around,” and what ensures that it will is the arrogant attempt to live by our “own standards.”
35 onlineanalyst // Mar 11, 2008 at 8:22 am
Happy birthday, Marge.
(See if prettyold will sing an appropriate greeting to you. She has a prettynice voice.)
36 RedPepper // Mar 11, 2008 at 8:28 am
Marge - have a happy!
mig #32: Eliot Spitzer is one of the most widely detested individuals in American politics. The guy is in Richard Nixon territory. Here in the Capitol District, the stench of schadenfreude is so strong it would gag a maggot. If we were in the Middle East, old crones would be dancing in the streets, ululating and passing out candy.
It’s a real measure of the man’s colossal arrogance that he has yet to resign.
37 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 11, 2008 at 8:48 am
I was glad to read this from American Thinker, so I thought I’d share it.
38 upnorthlurkin // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:07 am
This is merely resumĂ© enhancement for a lib dhimmi ! As for pimping out his wife and daughters….in my opinion…. despicable. As for doing the honorable thing ……HA! When was the last time there was any honor in the Democratic party?!
39 nylecoj // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:09 am
Happy bday marge.
BTW did I see you over at Rachel Lucas?
40 nylecoj // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:14 am
Re #36 That was great!
Thank-you JL3
41 MajorDomo // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:20 am
Bill Nelson (Damocrat, Florida) this morning tried to blame the Republicans for the vote problems of the Democrat primary, before saying that they would have to mail out “re-do” ballots to every registered democrat voter in Florida. Question: Are Florida’s primaries open? If so, they will need to mail ballots to EVERY registered Florida voter.
WV: Mildred elub…I think I know her
42 MajorDomo // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:30 am
Happy birthday, Marge…belated though it is. And good luck on the job ap.
43 Good Point » Pursuing Holiness // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:36 am
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44 boberinyetagain // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:49 am
I humbly bow to the master, Mr. Ott. The town hall post says much what mine does but 1000 times better, of course!
grocery lounge, yummy!
45 gafisher // Mar 11, 2008 at 10:05 am
. . . . . -=0=- __ Happy Birthday, Marge! __ -=0=- . . . . . .
Best wishes of the day and for the year, especially regarding the job.
_
46 MajorDomo // Mar 11, 2008 at 12:16 pm
WV: $1,000 gloss: What I need on my Dodge P/U
47 prettyold // Mar 11, 2008 at 2:55 pm
When a man and woman stand in front of a Minister ,Priest ,or Rabbi,to be married , they both swear an oath ,before G*d,Love honor cherish,etc. One of them breaks this oath ,acts as though it has no importance at all.Adultery!
So when a man (or woman) swears that Oath of Office to be Governor or Senator or President ,what is the difference? If he will not keep one oath, he will not keep another .What difference does it make if he swears in Court to tell the truth ,we already know his Oath is unimportant to him and he will break it if he wants to.
In my Bible ,I can’t find any place where it says adultery is a lessor crime than murder or stealing or False Witness.
I do care when a man is unfaithful to his wife.
48 Beerme // Mar 11, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Breaking an oath could be considered perjury.
Happy Birthday, Marge! And good luck on the job offer!!!!
49 mindknumbed kid // Mar 11, 2008 at 5:41 pm
That’s right prettyold, good points and so true. It goes to character, remember Hillary Clinton’s husband? Perfect example, no respect for an oath he has taken translates to no respect for the wife he has taken or the office he has taken. Without respect, he is not apt to make careful decisions or have any regard for them. But most Americans are only concerned with themselves, so as long as what a politician does is good for them, particularly their wallet, nothing else matters.
A man has got to guard his thoughts, if he entertains the wrong ones for long he will commence to acting on them, if he doesn’t care to guard them, he’ll do whatever he wants to do, he won’t be sorry for his actions, just getting caught and sorry for the trouble he gets into after he’s caught.
50 mindknumbed kid // Mar 11, 2008 at 5:46 pm
And he will only say he is sorry to get his rear out of a sling, but he will not be sorry about his deeds.
I’m generalizing, if a man still has any sense of decency, he will learn from his mistakes and change his ways. Any evidence of that in Hillarys hubby’s life?
51 camojack // Mar 11, 2008 at 5:48 pm
onlineanalyst // Mar 11, 2008 at 8:22 am
Happy birthday, Marge.
(See if prettyold will sing an appropriate greeting to you. She has a prettynice voice.)
Dittos…and I can vouch for the latter statement (in parentheses).
52 prettyold // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:22 pm
You’re making me blush. Nevertheless Marge will get her song. Have a very Happy Birthday Marge. My “talent’ is a very small one ,but I will not hide it in a bushel. Get it right out there ,is my motto.
Thank you Ola and Jack.
53 prettyold // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I just can’t agree that Scott Ott is no different than Elliot Spitzer.
When a man or woman takes up the mantle of leadership and calls out “Follow me , Let me lead you , Do as I tell you , I am smarter and more knowledgable than you,Give me your money ,I can spend it more wisely than you, I am purer than you”,they owe their followers .
I’m not saying I am better than Spitzer, I’m saying he should have been better than me , he should have been BETTER than Scott. Those who choose to lead should have Honor,they should be as honest as they can be,and the well being of those they lead should be their first concern,even before their family.Those who help the leaders should be treated with respect ,not as pack animals.
I’m speaking of all Leaders ,Politicians , Doctors, Lawyers ,Teachers, Preachers ,all who insist they should have control over others.We can’t all be followers ,some have to lead ,but if they choose to lead they owe the ones who lead them .
Somehow this has become twisted around ,so that leaders feel they are the ones who are owed.No they are not ,and they must be held to a higher standard, and they deserve a much harsher punishment when they willfully fail. When they steal and take bribes ,use drugs and commit adultery,an example should be made of them. Not a Country Club prison,or just a slap on the wrist ,but hard time ,just as all the other citizens of America have to serve.
I don’t agree that we get the Government we deserve. If all the Leaders were honest and told us the truth ,maybe that would be true. They know once they get inside that first door ,they’ve got it made. They become rich beyond their wildest dreams and know they will never be punished if they are caught.
54 prettyold // Mar 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I certainly hope no one ,especially Scott ,took my last post as criticizing Scott Ott. I certainly wasn’t . Just from what I read ,Scott has to be a much better person than Elliot Spitzer. Even if he is not ,he has never told me how to live ,how to vote ,how to spend my money,or tried to influence me ,except by very clever humor.
I would trust Scott to spend time with my children or grandchildren,and never would have trusted Mr Spitzer near anyone I love.
I pray that Mr Spitzer can treat this as a wake up call ,and really turn his life around.Maybe in a few years he can be half as as good a man as Scott Ott.
55 mindknumbed kid // Mar 12, 2008 at 7:32 pm
With few exceptions everybody here is a better person than he is, but ain’t none of us really have a thing to brag about, just a bunch of sinners.
56 MajorDomo // Mar 12, 2008 at 9:34 pm
MNK, we “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God”. The difference between me and, say, Spitzer is that I have admitted my sin, asked God’s forgiveness, and changed my ways. He, apparently, has done none of that.
wv: and Kathleen. Love that name!
57 MajorDomo // Mar 12, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Apparently, finally seeing that there is no light at the end of the tunnel, now the Democrats seem prepared to trade two certain losers for a known loser, as rumors begin circulating about another Gore candidacy.
58 mindknumbed kid // Mar 13, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Well, they’ve already provided the sex, might as well have some gore too.
Gasp! MajorDomo, then you’re a Christian….
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