Spitzer Turns 49 Today
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer turns 49 today, and apparently he’s moving on with his life.
The New York Sun today reports that Spitzer is moving forward with running his father’s real estate business, Spitzer Enterprises, and met with Washington D.C.-based labor leaders to start scooping up distressed real estate.
As we reported here last week, Spitzer also seems relieved that he’s no longer burdened with the job of governor.
Yet there’s questions about how long that relief with last.
The man accused of running the escort service that Spitzer patronized is planning will plead guilty this week, and Page Six reported today that the feds are closing in on Spitzer
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Rot in hell.
What a horrible, hypocritical, dirtball human being. He is a second-class citizen.
Overspoiled, self-hating Jewish middle-class slime. My Lubavitch friends have torn their shirts.
Let him make peace with whatever his g-d may be, then go. He was a destructive public presence. A worthless human.
Further explanation needed:
To think that I voted for him, in 1998, when he was the alternative to one of my own Republicans, a guy who had politicized the State Justice Department, makes me wretch.
I had much higher hopes for the just-previous governor, who beat a guy I really liked, John Faso. After his election, the as-yet-unindicted former governor helped screw the best district attorney in New York, Michael Bongiorno, in a cold, cynical deal that flipped New Square for Bongiorno’s opponent.
Fellow New Yorkers: we need a REVOLT in order to turn out the corrupt people who are trying to run our lives.
If you believe the story in the Post, which was on Page 6 and not in the news pages, the Feds are close to indicting Spitzer on a number of charges. We’ll see.
Tim—- As you know, the state-wide problems, of which there are so many, originate in that snakepit known as Albany. But as long as voters keep returning these crooks to office, and as long as the Albany mob keeps selling out to the unions, nothing will change. It will only get worse. Which is why TERM LIMITS are not only a good idea, but a necessary one.
tim my good fellow…its not so much that he is a self
hater…it is that he is a spoiled brat whose daddy
gave him everything he wanted the whole way…kind
of like the father whose kid wrecks his porsche and gets
a new one the next day…or whose kid gets caught cheating
at harvard but then reinstated because daddy contributed
a swimming pool…but those of us who followed his career
his brutal treatment of greenberg, and grasso..with no
indictments knew….and we said so..but the public was
mesmerized….the sheriff of wall street….will be
doing time…with his socks on!!!
time for a grey goose…
The kind in a bottle or the kind at Sprain Lake golf course? If the latter, watch where you step.
I am talking martinis….no vermouth….unfortunately
with the medication I am on ..my drinking is limited
to one …...a night..but the doctor didn’t say
how big…
If the former, watch where you stagger. Some years ago, when I bought a house in LPW (Bronxville Improper) my young daughter played with the young son of my adjacent neighbor who owned a large Bowman Tudor. The boy, when he saw my stocked wine rack, pointed to it and said to me: “My daddy drinks that stuff and falls down a lot.” Needless to say, I never mentioned that conversation to my neighbor. He turned out to be a pretty good guy.
wahoo and consultant (friends of mine) are Absolutly crorrect (pardon pun).
Throw them ALL out, I say.
I hate that spoiled brat, the immediate past governor, and only hope he does his best Thomas Merton impersonation, retiring to the hills to reflect, as Chuck Colson did, long ago.
As for me, it’s nearly 7, so I’ll go get a Bombay, dry. (Maybe like Julia Roberts’ in the great movie “Charlie Wilson’s War.)
Tim, were you trying to type “Absolutely crocked?”
Tim
I am not here to defend Spitzer, but what does his religion have to do with anything? In general, I am kind of confused by your 3:07 post as he was not middle-class and I don’t think he had anything to do with Lubavichs.
And second, I was curious why you voted for him in 1998? Even the liberal New York Times had doubts about him then.
Okay, I now realize the Lubavich reference with the voting but am still puzzled by everything else in that post.
Ian (and Ed):
“Abolut” reference was a pun, as you gathered. Misspellings further were my commission.
Spitzer was the more qualified candidate for Attorney General, when he was fresh, in 1998. Reason: Dennis Vacco, my Republican incumbent, had politicized the Justice Department. But more important: a writing client of mine in 1998, Steven Pagones, had just won his lawsuit against Sharpton, Maddox, and Mason, in Dutchess County. Steve, a good guy, had been defamed by that trio of angry radicals—costing him his marriage and family. I was shopping Steve’s book around, and Charlie Gibson had done a two-part series on 20/20 on Steve’s turmoil. No publisher bought the book, because Steve was thought of as a “majority” “non-victim.” But worse: Steve, who had been a lawyer in Vacco’s office prior to winning his case—when he took an unpaid leave during the trial—went back to Vacco’s office, in September 1998, and proudly told them of his victory against the forces of Tawana Brawley evil. Vacco’s assistant back-channelled to Steve: “The attorney general doesn’t want to hire you back as a lawyer right now (at roughly $70k/yr.). He’d rather you be an investigator (at $40k/yr.).” This, after Steve had just wom his pyrric victory against the three stooges. Why didn’t Vacco want to hire Steve back at his old job? “He doesn’t want to lose the black vote,” it was explained to Steve, who had suffered for ten years.
I turned to my (lifelong Republican) self and said, “He just lost the white vote.”
I voted with vengeance for Spitzer in ‘98 for that reason.
Remember Steve Pagones when you think about the dynamic that brought us Spitzer.
I am surprised that story did not get more play. Pagones, was as much a victim as the Duke Lacrosse Players but unfortunately, he never received full vindication. Sharpton, still won’t apologize.
To clarify I mean the story involving Vacco and Pagones. Obviously, the made up allegations involving Brawley got tons of attention.
Ian: you’re good people, and a thoughtful man.
I’m five years older than Spitzer, who is an ugly piece of dung, and I really look down upon him.
The “Our Crowd” Jews who made New York what it is were (and still are) great people—such as Spitzer’s father. Or Punch Sulzberger, a former Marine.
The next generation lost something, and became vile, self-interested, immoral people.
The “our crowd” Jews weren’t very Jewish even as far back as the late 1800’s. The “our crowd” group was very secular, and many married in churches as well as had their memorial services there.
The real crime that the former governor is guilty of is gross hypocracy. He practiced selective morality.
It is a little frustrating that he can just leave the office, and then go back to a family business that will support him in a manner that very few can afford.