I received numerous e-mails and messages regarding a possible post on New York’s Governor Eliot Spitzer yesterday and I have to admit, I was a bit shocked to see my man Spitzer was caught with his pants down. Seriously, the guy is a white knight, a choir boy, someone who looked out for the little guy and did a lot to clean up the mess on Wall Street (i.e. former NYSE director Dick Grasso’s compensation, the inflation of stock prices by investment banks, investors being taken advantage of with late trading policies and mutual funds, etc).
Full disclosure: the Bushido donated money to Spitzer’s 2006 campaign for Governor and is still on his mailing list. Personally, I could care less about the Governor’s “private matters” as long as he is doing well by the people of New York. I have always been one to except a person’s flaws in their private life as long as they are apt and capable in their duties to the office they hold. Go down the list: JFK, FDR and Bill Clinton were arguably all excellent presidents and they all had flawed personal lives. People of New York, it is time to stand by your man (a record 70% of you voted for him in his gubernatorial election), swallow your pride and quit pushing for Spitzer to step down, just stay tuned for when the “juice” gets added to the story and realize that there’s just some things most men don’t want to do to the woman who kisses their children at night. And quite frankly, from a professional stand-point, one would have expected a little more discretion from a prostitute who charges $1,000 an hour.
Client # 9
The Old Gray Lady reported that Spitzer was caught on a federal wire tap six times setting up a meeting with his $1,000 an hour madam named “Kristen”, a petite brunette (5 feet 5 inches, and 105 pounds), on February 12th and 13that the Mayflower Hotel (Room 871) in DC (photo credits: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) In addition, The NY Times reported that Spitzer paid $4,300 for services rendered and an advance for their next encounter to Kristen and the recently brought down multi-million dollar, prosecution ring named the “Emperor’s Club”. To read the full complaint in PDF, click here
When your own words come back to haunt you
Sadly, it seems that we here at the Bushido have to remind the public of the same advice Governor Spitzer (then attorney general) had for criminals in an ABC News interview, "Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need."
Now I know that they will go nuts on Spitzer in the NY Times, Wa-Po (link to Dana Milbank’s article, “Client 9's Sinking Ship”) and the WSJ (link to CNBC article giving a round up of the latest smack downs in the Editorials) but let’s be serious and look at the facts: 1) the hooker is still alive and 2) there’s no young boy involved, hence there’s no violation of the Cardinal Rule of Politics. Basically, it’s just like our friend John Glenn (the astronaut) used to say, “If you set a trap with ‘Tang, you’ll catch me every time”.
Full disclosure: the Bushido donated money to Spitzer’s 2006 campaign for Governor and is still on his mailing list. Personally, I could care less about the Governor’s “private matters” as long as he is doing well by the people of New York. I have always been one to except a person’s flaws in their private life as long as they are apt and capable in their duties to the office they hold. Go down the list: JFK, FDR and Bill Clinton were arguably all excellent presidents and they all had flawed personal lives. People of New York, it is time to stand by your man (a record 70% of you voted for him in his gubernatorial election), swallow your pride and quit pushing for Spitzer to step down, just stay tuned for when the “juice” gets added to the story and realize that there’s just some things most men don’t want to do to the woman who kisses their children at night. And quite frankly, from a professional stand-point, one would have expected a little more discretion from a prostitute who charges $1,000 an hour.
Client # 9
The Old Gray Lady reported that Spitzer was caught on a federal wire tap six times setting up a meeting with his $1,000 an hour madam named “Kristen”, a petite brunette (5 feet 5 inches, and 105 pounds), on February 12th and 13that the Mayflower Hotel (Room 871) in DC (photo credits: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) In addition, The NY Times reported that Spitzer paid $4,300 for services rendered and an advance for their next encounter to Kristen and the recently brought down multi-million dollar, prosecution ring named the “Emperor’s Club”. To read the full complaint in PDF, click here
When your own words come back to haunt you
Sadly, it seems that we here at the Bushido have to remind the public of the same advice Governor Spitzer (then attorney general) had for criminals in an ABC News interview, "Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need."
Now I know that they will go nuts on Spitzer in the NY Times, Wa-Po (link to Dana Milbank’s article, “Client 9's Sinking Ship”) and the WSJ (link to CNBC article giving a round up of the latest smack downs in the Editorials) but let’s be serious and look at the facts: 1) the hooker is still alive and 2) there’s no young boy involved, hence there’s no violation of the Cardinal Rule of Politics. Basically, it’s just like our friend John Glenn (the astronaut) used to say, “If you set a trap with ‘Tang, you’ll catch me every time”.
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