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.

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.

“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 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.

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—- 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.

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.

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.