March 11, 2008
Silda Wall Spitzer, Suffering Spouse in the Spotlight
Photographs of Silda Wall Spitzer and Eliot Spitzer after the governor's apology yesterday by Louis Lanzano/AP
Last year, in the middle of his woes with the State GOP (right before Troopergate exploded), Governor Eliot Spitzer revealed his wife said to him, "What was wrong with going into the family business? That wouldn’t have been so bad." Now, people are probably wondering the same thing, as her husband apologized (sort of) for using a prostitute the night before Valentine's Day.
One friend of Silda Wall Spitzer, an accomplished lawyer who met Spitzer while at Harvard Law, told the Daily News, "If I were her, I would call my mother or my best friend and pack my bags and go someplace far away for six months and take my daughters with me." The Post implies that Wall Spitzer gave her career up for Spitzer (see this November 2006 NY Times feature).
Debate has surrounded her appearance next to her husband, during his apology. Dana Goldstein at The American Prospect wrote, "When politicians are caught cheating, I wish they'd leave their wives in the green room while they address the press. You're in the dog house, and it should look that way. Those "stand by your man" visuals are tired and demeaning." However, former first lady of New Jersey, Dina Matos, ex-wife of ex-NJ Governor James McGreevey, said on the Today Show:
"She’s doing what’s right for her. We have to remember that this is a real person. Her husband is a politician, but this is a real woman who’s experiencing some very, very, very painful times and having to deal with three teenage daughters.Matos added that she "ached" for Wall Spitzer "when I was watching her."It’s a very personal matter. For me, I thought about my daughter. This was a man that I loved, whom I had taken a vow to stand by in good times and in bad, and that was the right decision for me at the time. It was very personal. It was not about the politics.
I don’t know what’s going through her mind. But I’m sure that her family certainly played a role in the decision, her role as a mom to protect her daughters, to do whatever it takes to try to keep the family together, at least to have some semblance of normalcy."
Update: Watch this video to see "expert" Dr. Laura Schlessinger explain that it's Silda's fault Spitzer strayed.
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Quick question. Do all three go to Albany high school and what grades are they in? I have two late teenage sons and if the Spitzers get divorced are they or will they be in line for a huge inheritance?
Snoopy, are you a pedophile, kidnapper, or just unable to distinguish what's relevant?
I just hope that she's standing with him because SHE wants to, not because she feels it's proper or he's making her.
she's hot. what an idiot.
meh, she's rich too.
they'll be OK, the children are not children but in their teens. I would be more concerned about them with a webcam and a stickam account.
the teens go to one of the most elite private schools in manhattan. like, what gossip girl is based on.
NYT - By ERIC KONIGSBERG
Published: November 10, 2006
"In January 2005, when she found herself pondering how best to come to terms with the job of political spouse, Silda Wall Spitzer sought the advice of a woman who was once best known for not fitting so comfortably into that role herself, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton."
Can't make this up... Hope she chews him up and "spitz" him out in divorce.
What a scuzzball hypocrite. Hey Elliot, RESIGN NOW and take your years of whore-mastery with you.
Matos added that she "ached" for Wall Spitzer "when I was watching her."
so did i
(yeah, you know what i mean)
I bet you'd get a better cut in the inevitable divorce settlement if you stand by your man at the press conference.
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Powers and duties of legislature; home rule powers of local governments; statute of local governments
Jen S your new avatar rawks! lol
wealth is relative
as for snoopy's comment: inheritance is granted when someone dies, not when they get divorced. idiot.
Boy Snoopy, hopefully your sons got the intelligence from your wife's side of the family.
"Do they gets inheritance monies in the divorce?"
White power indeed.
Wealth is relative all right,
that's where most get theirs, from their relative.
these type of spectacle (the scandals) is even worse than the hiring hookers...WHy do people are so willing to eat and ask for more of this public humiliation of the whole family?
I'd leave her alone...sad spectacle where most are accomplices
maybe Silda will make the "grand bargain" and run for governor in 10 years.
doesn't she kinda look like Bill Pullman's first lady in Independence day?
She should divorce the gavone. Him and his daddy will pay out. Ka-ching!
damn that was an expensive hooker! I thought he was a man of the people! He couldn't just get a medium-priced hooker like the rest of those sex-starved, hypocritical middle american men?
did you read how he's a "difficult customer"? I guess nothing but a two thousand dollar hooker will do for his special-needs penis!
I think the fact that she stood by him during the address is pretty good evidence that
1) she already knew or
2) it's not the first time something like this has happened.
Sad but true: Any woman who marrys a politician (politicians of course being egomaniacs and narcissists of the highest order) better have a firm grasp on reality and know what she's in for. Hopefully the perks she got in return were worth it.
Sad but true: Any woman who marrys a politician (politicians of course being egomaniacs and narcissists of the highest order) better have a firm grasp on reality and know what she's in for. Hopefully the perks she got in return were worth it.