Governor Eliot Spitzer's Sex Scandal Exemplifies What Happens To Those With Power
Last week was the Ohio primaries and I almost didn't vote, despite this being a very exciting time in our nations political history. The last two presidential elections I voted in, I lost. I didn't just lose because the candidate I backed lost, I lost because my country was no longer my own. I felt completely disenfranchised by the person who became my president. Such is the way of our political system. Half the people get what the want, the other half get left swinging in the breeze.
Throw in the complete and utter contempt and overt disdain our current leadership has for its constituency by loading the Supreme Court with conservative judges thus creating a very unbalanced judicial system, the systematic snatching away of personal privacy under the guise of a "war on terror" and then ultimately the deteriorating state of our current economics, it's no surprise people want change in their government.
Yesterday NY Governor Elliot Spitzer, a former Attorney General, called a press conference to apologize for a "personal matter" which compromised his integrity as an elected official and ultimately hurt his family. While he didn't elaborate on what the personal matter was, it didn't take a genius to figure out he was taking a preemptive strike against information which linked him to a "high-rolling prostitution ring." The very types of criminal activities as Attorney General of New York he fought tooth and nail to prosecute and eliminate.
The only remaining question is whether Spitzer will resign from his post as governor or if he will be forcibly removed. It's is likely he will resign, as politicians are loath to come clean about their transgressions, though ultimately we are going to find out anyway. Interestingly, if Spitzer resigns or is impeached, Lt. Governor David Paterson will take his place, making him the first blind and black governor of New York. Let's hope he will live up to his position better than Spitzer has.
Here's some detail of the allegations pending against Spitzer from CNN, though so far, no formal charges have been filed:
Spitzer, who is married with three children, went before reporters Monday to confess to an undisclosed personal indiscretion, saying he had acted "in a way that violates my obligations to my family, that violates my or any sense of right and wrong." Continued on the next page
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