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New York Governor Eliot “Mr Clean” Spitzer resigns – and Why do women stand by their cheating husbands?AP: No red flags in Spitzer expense reports
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080321/ap_on_re_us/spitzer_travel_1
By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 21, 2:18 PM ET
Ever since the prostitution scandal shoved Gov. Eliot Spitzer out the door, people have wondered: Did he spend taxpayer dollars or campaign money to subsidize trysts?
An analysis by The Associated Press of a year's worth of expense reports for Spitzer's office and his campaign committee shows little sign the money was used for illicit activities.
Read the entire article here: AP: No red flags in Spitzer expense reports
Earlier I had written:
March 12, 2008 – March 15, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ik_Q9aeH_PU
Just last week, just when you were about to get your nerve up to watch or read the news, the story broke that (now former) New York governor Eliot Spitzer – “The gov-love client number 9” - had violated his marriage vows and broken a number of laws by having an extra-marital affair with an “aspiring singer.”
All right, you follow the news. You know the story. This is a family oriented newspaper…
As the news continued to unfold, it started to read like a bad plot for a “B” movie or a harlequin novel. In
For those of us who simply dread winter, spring can’t come soon enough. For those of us who are old enough to understand that good times and bad times are cyclical; perhaps some sunshine, spring flowers, the end of the current Maryland General Assembly session, and some resolution on the many pressing challenges facing our local, and national government will brighten our outlook.
Of course, recently a study was released that folks with a positive outlook live longer and healthier lives, so the other day I endeavored to adopt a “cheer up, things could be worse attitude.”
I cheered up and sure enough – things got worse…
Locally, county and municipalities are grappling with how to fund all the goods and services of which local citizens are demanding with the reality that tax revenues are declining.
Revenues for local government are declining as the cost to operate government continues to escalate and it is starting to sink-in that the Maryland legislature increased taxes last fall yet cut back on the amount of money flowing into the coffers of local government.
Juxtapose this with the fact that Governor Spitzer, a multi-billionaire, threw away as much as $80,000 on his extra-curricular activities. Just think of how much a difference that kind of money would’ve made in our local community?
Governor Spitzer mercifully resigned on March 12 and ended a sensational 48 hours of salacious melodrama of position, power, greed, and human failings. It has probably ended the career that was considered so bright that his name was being bantered about as a 2012 or 2016 presidential candidate.
There are many lessons to be learned by this sad, sordid saga.
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Why do women stand by their cheating husbands?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pWq5nbPmbIk
March 15, 2008
Last week the story broke that (now former) New York governor Eliot “Mr. Clean” Spitzer, otherwise known as “love client no. 9,” had violated his marriage vows and broken a number of laws by taking “acting lessons” with an “aspiring-singer.”
Governor Spitzer mercifully resigned on March 12 and ended a sensational 48 hours of salacious melodrama of position, power, greed, and human failings.
Our first thoughts go out to his family. This is first and foremost a personal tragedy. Our hearts went out to his wife, Silda Spitzer, as she stood by her husband in two key press conferences.
Folks who ask why she did that are overlooking the obvious. Why didn’t he apologize directly to her? For the love of Pete, why didn’t she haul-off and clobber the miserable slug?
Mrs. Spitzer, his wife for 21 years, by all accounts is quite accomplished and well educated and has essentially forsaken her career for his – and to raise three daughters.
The ironies abound in this tragedy…
That was the introduction of the Westminster Eagle column I filed over the weekend. It will appear in the paper this coming Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Meanwhile, on March 15th, 2008, Sabra Gertsch for Fox Phoenix News excellently explored the question that many of us have on our minds: Why Do Women Stand By Their Cheating Husbands?
After being publicly humiliated by reports of her husband hiring prostitutes Silda Spitzer stands by her man. That was the case during Wednesday morning's press conference...
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“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”
New York Governor David Patterson admits to affairs
March 18, 2008
Maybe it’s something in the water up in
And of course, this all happens after I wrote, “No doubt, the governors’ winter meetings were probably overlooked because, even with Democrats holding a 28 to 22 majority, they may be the only sane adults left on the nation’s leadership stage….” (February 27, 2008 Reality takes The Year Off Kevin E. Dayhoff:
“Last weekend the nation’s governors met in
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer mercifully resigned on March 12 and ended a sensational 48 hours of salacious melodrama of position, power, greed, and human failings. It has probably ended the career that was considered so bright that his name was being bantered about as a 2012 or 2016 presidential candidate.
His successor, New York Lt. Gov. David Paterson is the state’s first African-American governor, the third in the nation since reconstruction, and the first legally blind governor in the nation.
Just as everyone took a deep breath and sighed in relief; it took only minutes before it was revealed that now-
Ay caramba.
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So much for the hope of safety…
If you have enough nerve – read on:
Report: NY Governor Admits to Affairs Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Gov. David Paterson, who took over the state's top job Monday after Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal, has admitted he and his wife Michelle had affairs during a rough patch in their marriage several years ago, a newspaper reported.
Read the entire article here: Report: NY Governor Admits to Affairs
Transcript Of Spitzer's Resignation Statement
March 12, 2008 -- The following is the statement of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer at his announcement of resignation:
In the past few days, I have begun to atone for my private failings with my wife Silda, my children and my entire family.
The remorse I feel will always be with me. Words cannot describe how grateful I am for the love and compassion they have shown me. From those who much has been given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of
I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.
To every New Yorker, and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize.
I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have been. But I also know, that as a public servant, I and the remarkable people with whom I work, have accomplished a great deal. There is much more to be done and I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people's work.
Over the course of my public life, I have insisted I believe correctly, that people, regardless of their position or power, take responsibility for their conduct. I can and will ask no less of myself. For this reason, I am resigning from the office of governor. At Lieutenant Governor Paterson's request, the resignation will be effective Monday, March 17, a date that he believes will permit an orderly transition.
I go forward with the belief, as others have said, that as human beings, our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
As I leave public life, I will first do what I need to do to help and heal myself and my family. Then I will try once again, outside of politics, to serve the common good and to move toward the ideals and solutions which I believe can build a future of hope and opportunity for us and for our children.
I hope all of
