Governor Spitzer: Client Number Nine
by Jeff Davis
This is one of those stories where you’d have to be living in a cave on Mars not to have seen it on the tube or in the papers. Everybody and his dog should be familiar with the details. New York’s Jewish governor Eliot Spitzer (a Democrat of course) held a press conference today announcing that he had been caught on tape with his trousers down by the FBI. Governor Spitzer’s wife (visibly in shock) was standing by his side at the podium while hubby sobbed and rent his garments at the shame of it all, but she didn’t say anything. She looked catatonic, with a thousand-yard stare, and I am convinced the poor woman had to be on some powerful anti-depressant. Talk about pure humiliation!
The Smoking Gun reports “New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been implicated in a prostitution ring. The Democratic politician will now always be known as ‘Client-9,’ one of the johns described in a recently unsealed FBI affidavit detailing the operation of the Emperors Club, an international call girl ring. That document, an excerpt of which you’ll find below, describes hooker interactions with 10 johns, including one client who paid cash for a February 13 rendezvous at a Washington, D.C. hotel. The New York Times, which broke the Spitzer story, has identified the 48-year-old politician as Client-9.”
The middle of a Presidential primary when all eyes are on politicians, and he’s still philandering?!! The Times also broke the story on John McCain and his favorite, blonde lobbiest. The New York Times must have a full time scandal department watching politicians.
Smoking Gun: “As described in the FBI document, Client-9 apparently went to great lengths to arrange the illicit Washington encounter, choosing to mail money in advance to the ring, instead of using a credit card. Client-9, whose conversations were recorded by an FBI wiretap, would not do ‘traditional wire transferring,’ the affidavit quotes one Emperors Club employee remarking. Additionally, the affidavit notes that after her appointment with Client-9 ended, ‘Kristen’ spoke with an Emperors Club booker, who said that she had been told that Client-9 ‘would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe…’ ‘Kristen’ responded by saying, essentially, that she could handle guys like that.”
Okay, cutting to the chase, looks like Eliot was recorded in that Washington hotel room doing some really sick and twisted things with this hooker, the FBI got him on tape, and however much clout Spitzer thought he had with the Feds, apparently it wasn’t enough to hush it up. (Remember, the neocons are still in office and the FBI is still commanded by a Republican administration.)
CBS is reporting that Spitzer will be resigning within 24 hours, so he must be into some really sick stuff and they must have him cold to get him to resign so quick, since politicians who get caught with their trousers down in recent years have developed a habit of fighting tooth and nail against losing their power and perks. Politicians have discovered that people have become so jaded and cynical about our Lords and Masters that they will just shrug off a sex scandal unless it’s something really, really grotty.
That character Mark Foley who was sending the Gay text messages to young male interns fled into seclusion in rehab and once the media lost interest, he tried to sneak back into the House of Representatives. He practically had to be physically dragged kicking and screaming out of the House by fellow Congressmen, and even that probably happened only because the 2006 elections were coming up. Senator Larry Craig from Idaho got arrested by an undercover cop in a public restroom in the Minneapolis airport for soliciting unnatural acts from total strangers, for God’s sake, pleaded guilty, and then just told the Senate and the whole world to get stuffed and refused to resign or admit he’d done anything wrong–and he’s still a Senator. (There was no election in 2007 so no pressure to clean out the garbage.)
This latest scandal couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Remember, it was Spitzer who wanted to spit in the face of federal law and the entire American people and hand out drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens a while back.
Now, if the FBI can only videotape John McCain in some hotel bedroom, in bed with a dead woman or a live boy.