Resigned Governor Spitzer

[BeautyPsycho]

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Originally Posted by pumpkincat210 While i feel sorry for his family, I wouldn't have done what his wife did and stand by him while he resigned. I would have taken my children and gotten the hell out of there and started divorce proceedings. I don't like weak willed women that tolerate this kind of behavior. Have some self respect!

I agree 100% During his speeches I couldn't stop looking at her...

Is she really strong or really weak, I can't tell. Either way, I wouldn't do what she did, no way!

 

[pumpkincat210]

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Originally Posted by captodometer Prostitution is legal in a lot of places, and as a public health official I accept the fact that people have sex and not always with the people that they are supposed to. So I personally don't care who he slept with: that's between him and his wife. I didn't vote the guy into office to be my moral and ethical beacon: I voted to represent my interests as a tax paying New Yorker. And I seriously doubt that he payed for the escorts with taxpayer dollars: he is the independently wealthy heir to a multimillion dollar fortune.

I don't really care who a person sleeps with, but when they break the law doing it, it becomes my business. As governor he was supposed to uphold the law to the fullest extent. He was a governor known for fighting corruption and a controversial one at that. He ran on a reform based platform pledge "to change the ethics of Albany". What he did was hypocritical. Looks like he needs to prioritize his own ethics. His approval rating was a low 33%.

 

[captodometer]

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Originally Posted by pumpkincat210 I don't really care who a person sleeps with, but when they break the law doing it, it becomes my business. As governor he was supposed to uphold the law to the fullest extent. He was a governor known for fighting corruption and a controversial one at that. He ran on a reform based platform pledge "to change the ethics of Albany". What he did was hypocritical. Looks like he needs to prioritize his own ethics. His approval rating was a low 33%.

All politicians run on a platform of " change", LOL. And changing the ethics of Albany would be a particularly difficult task indeed: take it from a New Yorker

I doubt that "ethics" and "politicians" even belong together in the same sentence. I think most of them start out with good intentions, and most end up doing something ethically/morally questionable.

Yeah, he's a hypocrite...but so is everybody else in the world. He just happened to get exposed in a more public forum than the rest of us. NY, especially upstate, has much bigger problems than who the former governor slept with and whether or not it was legal. The steadily increasing taxes, flight of the manufacturing industries, negative population growth, violent crime rates, etc would all probably rate much higher on the priority list of the average NY state citizen.

NY has the second highest property tax rates in the country. And they went up again last year

That alone would have earned the governor a less than stellar approval rating! Current scandal is just more fuel on the fire.

I really don't understand why anyone from outside NY state even cares about soon to be former Governor Spitzer at all: he didn't govern the 290 million Americans who don't live in the state. And it sounds like the rest of the country has some serious problems, too. President Bush had a 19% approval rating when I moved overseas last year. The mortgage industry was collapsing, and the price of oil was skyrocketing. The death toll in Iraq has continued to rise. The stock market has taken a serious nosedive and the value of the US dollar has plummeted through the floor. I keep hearing the word "recession." Bad times ahead for the US economy and a lot of its citizens; all the concern over yet another politician sex scandal just sounds trivial

 

[amoona]

I'm not surprised - he's not the first and certainly wont be the last. What I thought was hilarious though is how all the news stations were following his car when he was driving through Manhattan to go resign. haha WTF?! Watching his car navigate through Manhattan traffic for 15 minutes is newsworthy?!

 

[ndn-ista]

^^^lol

 

[lipstickandhate]

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Originally Posted by captodometer And he may have managed the same as governor if he had managed to stay in office longer than 15 months; he didn't get off to a very good start. But it's a moot point now because he resigned.

I don't think he would've done anything. He pissed the legislature off too bad with his rhetoric and his actions. All he did was misuse the state police and try to get driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. Any good he may have wanted to do was counter-acted by his crazed attitude and disrespect for anyone except himself and other die-hard Democrats.

I agree w/Patterson lowering the property taxes! But we have a multi-billion dollar deficit so I don't see that happening. Shoot.

 

[Ms. Z]

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Originally Posted by pumpkincat210 While i feel sorry for his family, I wouldn't have done what his wife did and stand by him while he resigned. I would have taken my children and gotten the hell out of there and started divorce proceedings. I don't like weak willed women that tolerate this kind of behavior. Have some self respect!

Totally. I would NEVER have stood by him either. I don't understand how H. Clinton & especially McGreevy's (Gov. of NJ) wife could tolerate being further publicly humiliated by the actions of their spouses.

 

[*Stargazer*]

This story rocks.

It rocks because it shows that the Democrats are big fat hypocrites just like the Republicans.


And that jackass would have been standing at those press conferences alone if he were my husband. No way in hell I'd stand by while he dragged me down with him and his stupid can't-think-with-his-brain-instead-of-his-penis self. F that!


I feel sorry for his daughters. It's got to feel reallllllllly icky to know that your Dad was having sex with girls you could conceivably meet and be friends with. Blech.

 

[angeliquea~+]

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Originally Posted by pumpkincat210 I guess she could have known, but i don't understand why any woman would stick around when her husband is cheating. I'd worry about diseases too.

Funny you should mention that, he asked Dupre to not use a condom and she had to stand up to him and repeatedly tell him "no". Imagine if she'd agreed to it, what sort of self-serving jerk would put his wife at risk like that?