Eliot Spitzer, Crook
- 03.10.2008 - 6:32 PMThe thing is, Eliot Spitzer is a crook. I’m not referring to the current prostitution scandal. I’m not referring to the scandal last year involving his senior aides and the leaking of confidential police information to the Albany Times Union. I’m not referring to the threatening phone call he made to the august John Whitehead, retired head of Goldman Sachs, who had the temerity to question a case Spitzer was building against an old friend of Whitehead’s. I’m referring to his conduct dating back to 1994, when he designed a complex scheme involving loans and real estate and collateralized apartments to evade campaign-finance laws so that his own father, Bernard Spitzer, could pay for his campaign as attorney general of New York state. Millions of dollars. And then, in 1998, running for the same office, he did it again. It’s hard to explain, but basically, Spitzer’s father gave him a lot of real estate. He used it to secure loans totaling more than $8 million. Then his father paid back the loans. He was supposed to pay his father back. He said he did. Then he acknowledged he hadn’t. Then somehow it all went away. I’m not a big fan of campaign-finance laws, but they are laws, and they are supposed to apply to everybody.
The rules don’t apply to Eliot Spitzer, or at least, that’s how Eliot Spitzer has acted throughout his public life. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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March 10th, 2008 at 6:40 PM
It’s not very complex. He’s a hypocrite and he got what was coming to him. good riddance
March 10th, 2008 at 6:56 PM
“It’s not very complex.”
Nope, it’s not even slightly complex. Eliot Spitzer is not a Republican. This is the sole reason why he has gotten away with so much nonsense.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:12 PM
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0310082spitzer1.html
section 75 indicates this was not the first time.
note: this indictment is boring. for a good time check out the debra lefavre one
March 10th, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Spitzer has always shown a contempt for the private sector that is often found in trust-fund kids.
The shady loan story went away, just like the State Trooper surveillance story went away, largely thanks to his Manhattan Media Mainstream base. They elevate or ignore stories based on how well they drive progressive policy. Yet many conservatives seem to have accepted their judgement about George W. Bush and Iraq.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:47 PM
If had married Elliot Spitzer, I wouldn’t have been standing there by his side like some kind of Step-Ford wife, and he wouldn’t be standing there either. He would be in an ICU unit.
But, Elliot Spitzer would have never married me anyways, despite my boarding school background, I probably was a little too Jewish for him.
He was never bar miztvahed. Does that mean there is a God? (I’m only kidding.)
March 10th, 2008 at 11:04 PM
I’m Funny
The moderator for the New York Sun has a good sense of humor, too, for letting me post it.
Whoever, from the FBI, wrote the word “deposit” many times must have had tongue firmly planted in cheek.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Congressman Peter King (admittedly not one of my heroes)thinks there’s an invariable link to the mob in cases like this. If so, it was not a victimless crime and the Governor of New York is not just a rich, pathetic, law-breaking phony.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:06 AM
It turns out that I’m not that funny after all. The comments fromSayHeyJay are VERY funny:
http://gawker.com/366136/your-spitzer-scandal-talking-points
March 11th, 2008 at 7:31 AM
When are we going to start seeing op-eds in the Times referring to the Democrats’ “culture of corruption?” Oh, wait, that’s only for Republicans …
March 11th, 2008 at 7:54 AM
Speaking of Republicans, in NY and NJ the Republican Party is close to extinct. Possibly, the voters noticed that most Republican leaders were liberal Democrats in disguise anyway. If NY had really had an opposition party, abuses by the party in power would not have passed so unnoticed.