So New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught in a prostitution ring at, of all places, the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. Mr. Spitzer’s "Private Matter" [NYTimes.com].
It is likely that every aspect of Mr. Spitzer’s other life as Client 9 for the Emperor’s Club V.I.P. — as he has been identified by law enforcement officials — every text message and other secretive communication will be made public. . . . His short, arrogant statement simply was not enough, not from the Sheriff of Wall Street, not from the self-appointed Mr. Clean who went to Albany promising a new and better day.
Following Rudi Guliani’s spectacular failure in the ’08 Republican primaries (and his four ex-wives), like Mario Cuomo’s 1988 and 1992 flame-outs, it seems New York political executives have a tendency for self-destruction. As least Nelson Rockefeller waited until he was dead to have his sexual peccadillos revealed!