Josh Marshall sums up my own reaction:
I must confess that I never cease to be amazed by stuff like this. We don't know the precise details yet of this 'prostitution ring involvement' on the part of the Gov. Spitzer (D). But how exactly is it that someone who makes it his business to bust the chops of big wall street titans uses prostitutes? TPM HQ is in Chelsea. And I'm expecting the streets to be deluged at any moment now by joyously rioting stock brokers coming up from Wall Street. We do know that financial industry honchos all have big 'security' offices and have tons of PIs who work for them. I'm frankly shocked they didn't smoke him out before this.
My worry is that they did "smoke him out before this" and cheerfully made him pay who knows how in terms of governance.
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New York will have its first black governor if Spitzer resigns which will play hard against Hillary (who has the Spitzer nod, I believe).
Yes, and blind too. It's a silver lining that Paterson is so widely respected. Not the firebrand Spitzer was -- but that was working out less well than one might have hoped anyway. I hadn't thought yet about the Clinton and Obama fallout... Interesting.
Well, I bought the McGreevey book, for rather transparent reasons
(having nothing to do with the fact that I happen to live in
New Jersey ;-> ), but I'll probably pass on the Spitzer book
(despite the fact that I work in New York).
My God, what he did with his face at that press conference --
it's on all the front pages this morning. F-F-f-face face
c-c-crime. Facecrime.
I think I'll go Google up Golan Cipel, see what he's up to
these days. ;->
Hello Dale,
The Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal has reignited debate about the politics of prostitution. In light of your advocacy for a democratized politics of autonomy where autonomy is lodged in the legible public scene of consent, I wonder which of the following stances towards prostitution do you advocate:
1. Abolition
2. Regulation
3. Legalization
4. Decriminalization
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