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The Mayflower Hotel's Room 871 in Washington D.C., where Spitzer planned his night with "Kristen": Spitzer used his good friend George Fox's name to check in and sneaked away from his security detail to head to the suite. Of course, the 871 number plate has been removed from the luxury hotel. As it happen, Spitzer, working for his father's real estate business, purchased an office building not too far from the hotel.
Media field day/ week/ month: Besides newspapers using the defining photo of Spitzer with his mouth impossibly pursued into a frown the day after the scandal broke, New York magazine went cheeky with a Barbara Kruger cover that said it all. Plus, the NY Times got the big scoop and the Post got to continues ridiculing Spitzer.
Humor: What's a better target than an Ivy League-educated crusader-type in politics who gets caught in a sex scandal? Blago aside, Spitzer provided fodder for Photoshop enthusiasts and comedians alike (one fave: Amy and Seth's Really on SNL).
Roger Stone, GOP operative: Though Stone was fired by the State GOP after allegedly leaving an insane phone message on Spitzer's father's voicemail, he apparently got the last laugh with Spitzer's demise. While it's unclear whether Stone actually had a role in bringing Spitzer down—Stone claims he met a prostitute who "almost had a date" with Spitzer—Stone had a good time showing off his Nixon tattoo.
Socks on: A detail that Stone reportedly included in an email to the FBI—that Spitzer was a socks-on john. Enough said.
A year ago today, the NY Times published a story on its website saying that Governor Eliot Spitzer, the crusading former NY State Attorney General who was elected with 69% of the vote in 2006, was "caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a law enforcement official and a person briefed on the investigation." And that sent off a chain of events amongst a motley group of famous (in political circles) and suddenly infamous characters. Click through for trip down Memory Lane.
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I still think that as morally reprehensible as Spitzer's conduct was, it shouldn't have ended his career as governor.
He was correct in resigning. He knew the jig was up. There was no way anyone could have takem him seriously as a leader of this state, much less a purveyor of justice. When you know that a dude keeps his socks on and likes to go bareback with a whore, you cannot possibly you can look at him with a straight face.
I can't look at that asshole Patterson with a straight face either-a cheating cokehead is now in office...
Gotta disagree. The executive simply can't have such a disrespect for the law. A simple affair would have been a completely different story.
He was facing federal charges when he resigned. Sending money across state lines for an illegal purpose is a federal felony. Staying in office could have meant years in prison. The smart thing to do was resign. The stupid thing to do is what ex-gov, future convict Blagojevich did.
It would have made Head Start ribbon-cutting ceremonies...awkward.