Eliot Spitzer Scandal Is About Irony, Not Sex
 Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

By now you've surely heard that Eliot Spitzer, the Governor of New York, was Client 9:  reportedly a consistent customer of the Emperors Club VIP, a prostitution ring where some of the call girl employees raked in upwards of $5k an hour.  That's $5k, as in $5,000.  Not in the state of New York, though, but in a Washington hotel room.  The outrage, though, stems not just from the fact that the 54th NY Governor and Democratic Party member was getting a little action on the side.

The outrage is in the irony that Spitzer has maintained a hypocritical stance throughout his career of "fighting" white collar crime, including locking people up over corruption, money-laundering, and prostitution charges for someone else's call girl ring.  And yet, now, law enforcement is identifying Eliot Spitzer as having paid over $4,000 in cash to a prostitute from the Emperors Club VIP - and not for the first time, either.

The AP reports that according to a source close to the investigation, "the probe began with a referral from banks to an [IRS] office on Long Island about suspicious transactions involving accounts ultimately traced to Spitzer."

After the IRS reviewed the information, it was passed on to federal prosecutors.

My apologies to the citizens of the great state of New York - I love the people there - but I have to say, I would trust a cartful of Gypsies before I would trust any New York politician.  (Okay, not literally, but close).  And that has little to nothing to do with Eliot Spitzer.

The state is just too close to the media, in too many ways.  I would be equally unfazed if Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent his evenings smacking his employee's asses and chainsmoking in the office.

Or if Ralph Nader, another former attorney like Eliot Spitzer (not from New York, but could have fooled me) takes secret trips to Hummer plants to cheer on pollution.

I could care less what any politician does with his sex life.  And many of you don't care to hear it, either.

But what we should all keep in mind here is that this is important, only for the pure fact that Spitzer has hounded and prosecuted citizens in his own state for doing the exact same thing.  He should not only be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law if these allegations are true, but he should be blackballed (or should I say blueballed?) from politics entirely.  Also bear in mind that this would not be a federal prosecution if there was no legal wrongdoing here.

If our government leaders don't practice what they preach, who will?

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