IWA For Sunday 031608

Hey folks,

Guess who? Not only the IWA, but most DEFINITELY in the running for the IWY Idiot of the Year. Former Governor Elliot Spitzer.

We all know the story. A really mean, vindictive former Prosecutor, then Governor of New York, with a reputation of being a hard line “Crusader” going after organizer Crime and Prostitution Rings, lead a double life as Client number 9. Racking up over $80,000 dollars over 10 years with PROSTITUTES. The NYT reported this.

Mr. Spitzer did nothing at half-speed. “Listen, I’m a steamroller,” he told a State Assembly leader in his first days as governor, adding a vulgar flourish. But his path through public life has at times resembled a blindfolded dash along the political I-beam, and he sometimes failed to recognize that his own footsteps could fall into ethically dodgy territory.

As attorney general, his ambition, intelligence and energy were palpable, and he took full advantage of the demise of a gilded, stock-fed decade to expose corruption at many of Wall Street’s most prestigious firms.

But he stumbled badly after ascending to the governor’s office, where his shiv-in-the-kidney style, so effective in facing down skittish bankers, met its match in the viscous political world of Albany. He relied — too often, said some — on his tough-talking crew from the attorney general’s office, and tended to speak loudly when he might better have listened.

Yet we now know the WHOLE time he was spending time and money on Prostitutes. One of the things that caught him was VALENTINES Day night when he was talking to the NOW famous Ashley Alexandra Dupré.

Now I kind of hinted to this in the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” category this week, but he put himself in a position where he could be black mailed by a bunch of people. All it would take in a phone call, from, oh, I do not know, a Hooker trying to make a name for herself? To cause him MAJOR problems. Oh, yeah, he was forced to resign.

Congratulations FORMER Governor Spitzer, for putting your self in this position and playing tough guy, you lose. For not taking into consideration your Family, the State of NY or any of your responsibility as the “Ethical Governor” you claimed to be, you ARE the Idiot of the Week. I have a feeling you will have plenty of free time to find another Hooker soon. Hey think of it this way, you can say you did a Super Star. Because you did.
Peter

Sources:
NYT- Spitzer Resigns, Citing Personal Failings