A very few of us know how Ashley A. Dupré found her way from young woman, to aspiring model to high-maintenance prostitute.
With equal amazement we look at the flameout of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s political career, and wonder how he thought he could get away with visiting and screwing “Kristen.”
Dupré, 22, who is also and aspiring […]
Saying he could not expect of himself anything less than he expected of others, Gov. Eliot Spitzer said he would resign on March 17. (Text of resignation announcement)
The ins and outs of that saga, of the wiretap evidence against him and whether he should have resigned will continue separate from a man and a […]
New York Gov. Spitzer’s future looks uncertain after he resigned as governor today. He has been in office just over a year, and as he’s taken on many important matters, he’s been plagued with push back along the way. Spitzer was not a uniter but he was dedicated to getting things done.
Spitzer himself is to blame for his career reaching the tipping point - and falling. In today’s speech he recognizes this. “I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have been … Over the course of my public life I have insisted, I believe correctly, that people, regardless of their position or power, take responsibility for their conduct. I can and will ask no less of myself.”
Below is the speech he gave today:
Eliot Spitzer rode into the governor’s mansion in 2006 at the crest of a wave of successful battles in court as the states’ attorney general.
The first-term New York governor has now been implicated in “involvement with a prostitution ring.”
This phrase, used repeatedly will not give Democrats great pleasure. What it means is not known at this time, but Spitzer has already come out and apologized in a manner that makes it sound as if he hired a hooker.
According to the Associated Press his statement was in part,
I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family … my sense of right and wrong,” he said at a news conference at his Manhattan office. “I must now dedicate some time to rededicate my trust to my family
It is unclear when the pay-for-play dalliance is supposed to have taken place. A New York Times report, however puts Feb. 13 as a possible time for the governor to exercise his executive privilege through the Web site, Emperors Club VIP.
Hey, perhaps he just mixed up the words, “prosecutional” and “prostitution”? Or “propositional”? Perhaps, not.
John McCain has an interesting choice to make as to who should be his vice presidential running mate. In the most basic of terms the considerations are wide. It’s not even clear the so-called “Maverick” would pick a Republican, though it would be a pretty craven Democrat who would accept his request. What’s that, Joe Lieberman?
A woman? Someone in a wheelchair? A general?
How about Colin Powell? Woah, that one is worth a long, considering pause isn’t it?
Regionally does it matter? Likely not another southwest presence but what about Arnold Schwarzenegger to help drag California to his side? I think it is technically constitutionally legal for a naturalized American to be vice president. National media would shine the biggest spotlight on this campaign.
Laura Ingraham? McCain likes the blondes.
Would he want to strengthen his hawkish (to put it mildly) positions or push someone who would balance where he is perceived as weak.
Does he accept that he is not conservative enough and that being more conservative would actually help with the general electorate?
Would he bring Jonah Goldberg aboard so the right-leaning blogosphere would finally come aboard?
Michael Bloomberg is a serious consideration. What say you?
What was considered a fairly minor, but still serious, disturbance at an army recruiting station in times Square has taken on a stronger hint of concern.
The New York Times reports that eight Democrats in the Congress from New York received warning letters and photos of the United States Armed Forces Careeer Center. No other Congressmembers or Senators are known to have received letters.
No one was killed or injured in the blast, described as small, which occurred at the meeting point of Seventh Avenue and Broadway. it broke out a window.
At about 3:45 a.m., this morning a man on a bicycle, with a backpack was observed, on surveillance camera and by a witness, dropping off a package in front of the station shortly before the explosion.
“The fact that this appears deliberately directed at the recruiting station,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, “insults every one of our brave men and women in uniform stationed around the world.”
The device “was not particularly sophisticated,” said New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly.
With his own confetti strewn picture atop his Web site, Independent candidate Ralph Nader wants people to not only listen to his views but to vote for him and send him money to become the 44th President of America.
Currently there sure do seem to be a lot of potential defectors from the Democratic Party if their preferred candidate doesn’t get the nomination. From the right, it’s hard to think Nader’s anti-corporate stance - not a bad thing - will draw many Republican defectors unhappy with John McCain. After all, they don’t like him because of McCain-Feingold’s attempted stripping of money power from corporations. McCain isn’t right enough.
Nader lays down 12 major issues he says are “off the table” of the other candidates. They are:
• Adopt single payer national health insurance
• Cut the huge, bloated, wasteful military budget
• No to nuclear power, solar energy first
• Aggressive crackdown on corporate crime and corporate welfare
• Open up the Presidential debates
• Adopt a carbon pollution tax
• Reverse U.S. policy in the Middle East
• Impeach Bush/Cheney
• Repeal the Taft-Hartley anti-union law
• Adopt a Wall Street securities speculation tax
• Put an end to ballot access obstructionism
• Work to end corporate personhood
Here Nader makes the pitch why he’s a better choice than McCain or Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton:
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