Two days after apologizing at a press conference for making undisclosed poor decisions, Governor Eliot Spitzer announced his resignation today. "I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people's work," said Spitzer. This resignation does not come as a shock to many, considering the strong response from the public after the information was released. Talks of possible impeachment is probably what led Spitzer to make the final decision to resign. It will be interesting to see if Washington D.C. will prosecute Spitzer for prostitution, which is a crime there, as it is in many states. He will be replaced by Lieutenant Governor David Paterson on Monday. Paterson will make history by being the state's first black governor who is also legally blind. He will be the second disabled governor since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Scandals like these make me wonder what the politicians are thinking when they make poor decisions. They rarely don't get caught, so why take the risk?
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Yep, an excellent question.
One correction, prostitution is a crime in DC, as in most other places, but it is rarely the men who are brought into caught. Spitzer's potential legal problems are that he transported a woman across state lines for sex, which according to an old Mann Act law from 1910 is illegal. Also, he violated banking regulations by the way he moved large amounts of money from one account into another. These are crimes, but he might have survived them. It's the poltics that did him in, most likely.
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