Comments on: Spitzer Deserves What He Gets

By: Roy Mandina

Roy Mandina — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:58:52 +0000

Are you really that stupid? Tell me you had just woken up and you weren’t thinking. Tell me something other than it’s no big deal for a former prosecuter, who wrote the law (so to speak) on prostitution and punishing the johns more severely, to become the governor, and not only brake his own law, but used mine and yours’ tax dollars to do it.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:59:35 +0000

This is a simple matter of government invading privacy. Just say NO to Big Brother.

By: Alan Stewart Carl

Alan Stewart Carl — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:42:40 +0000

Max, how is it the media’s fault and not Spitzer’s fault for committing a felony? Hey, I appreciate that you consider prostitution an “indescretion” but I think it’s quite a bit worse than that and given that it’s illegal in 49 states, most voters must agree. If he just had sex with his secretary, I’d be on your side. But a felony is a felony. Hard to argue that a felon is fit to serve in office when anyone else caught in this situation would be serving parol or hard time.

By: Ickybits

Ickybits — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:26:53 +0000

NYT’s has a story just out about Spitzer pushing through legislation making much stiffer penalties for johns who hire prostitutes just this last year, combined with his having prosecuted prostitution as attorney general hiring prostitutes from his office. If Spitzer stays then the people he put in jail for prostitution should be released and hopefully file suit against him for malicious prosecution.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:35:43 +0000

If the scandal had not come out, New York wouldn’t have been any worse off. Why call on him to resign now? How could one possibly think that our state will be better off shaking up the Executive when we have a $4B deficit and the budget deadline is fast approaching?

The legislature has come to a complete standstill. The media hoopla surrounding this debacle has been a thousand times more detrimental to New York than the actual offense. From the way the papers have been attacking the poor sap, you’d think he was the kingpin of the organization.

After months of fumbling, Spitzer finally started to learn the ropes as Governor. If this spectacle wasn’t blown out of proportion there is no reason this indiscretion would have prevented him from serving New York honorably.

By: kritter

kritter — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:35:20 +0000

I don’t really agree that it’s “not about sex.” It’s all about sex, the desire that brough the sin.

But I think you’re right that it’s not simply about sex when it comes to what the ramifications ought to be. He was the attorney general, and now he’s governor, so that means he has to be held to a higher standard, in much the same way that it’s more irresponsible for a pregnant mother to smoke than it is for a wino down on the street corner.

He broke his public oath to uphold the law, and he left himself subject to blackmail.

And he also has to be held to a higher standard because he implicitly requested it by being unforgiving and sanctimonious throughout his public career.

Thanks for playing Eliot. Time for you to learn about forgiveness. In the private sector, BTW.