Gov. Spitzer in transition talks; not likely to resign today

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Daily News

By JOE MAHONEY, LARRY McSHANE and JUAN GONZALEZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Updated Tuesday, March 11th 2008, 2:28 PM

Gov. Spitzer is not likely to resign anytime Tuesday, a source close to New York's scandal-tainted chief executive told the Daily News - even as the chorus to quit hit a crescendo and tentative transition talks began.

At the same time, law enforcement sources told the News there is evidence Spitzer has been patronizing hookers for several years. The News reported Monday that Spitzer's name surfaced on a wiretap last summer.

"He is still in the place where he is trying to figure out the end run of this," said the source, a high-ranking official in the Spitzer administration.

...snip...

The source said the governor is "most likely" trying to cut a deal with federal prosecutors delving into his alleged role as a customer of a high-priced call girl ring.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03/11/2008-03-11_gov_spitzer_in_transition_talks_not_like.html

[HockeyMom]

1. You go, Eliot

Don't let the Republicans in the Senate take you down.

[FightTheRight89]

2. Oh, come on Eliot.

You've shamed the office, shat on the party, and betrayed the promises you'd made - remember Day One? It's time for you to go. There is no way anything constructive can come from you finishing your term.

[sallyseven]

4. Your full of crap.

Leave him alone and worry about the KB&G and the stuff they are doing in Iraq dirty water and more illness. How about the water supply? Blackwater claiming that the workers are independent contractors. No SS payments,No Medicare payments. no taxes. Pay up you working stiffs so they don't have to.

[FightTheRight89]

7. What are you talking about?

All I'm saying it that it would be in the interest of the state and interest of our Democratic party if this guy left, thereby causing the amount of gridlock to decrease. Should Spitzer stay in, all he will be doing is be on the defensive for the rest of the term. He has no credibility and will not get anything done.

But I guess I'm just full of crap.

[winggirle]

3. Don't Step Down....

I think with the Republicans pushing for his resignation, they should look at Pres. Bush and when the democrats in July 07, decided not to push impeachment against him. So, I look at the Republican party has less to say about the issue because they have already made the waters mudding.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. why can freaks of nature like Vitter and Craig stay

while Spitzer feels obligated to leave?

What is being claimed is hypocritcal and inappropriate - but nothing like the shit (no pun intended) that Vitter was into or Larry Craig's mensroom perversion.

[Bilbo Heugan]

6. Is it the same Republican John Vitter defenders I now hear

screaming with great moral indignation about John Spitzer. Guess you have to be a Republican to get away with it. I watched CNN report on the case a couple times last night where they named various other politicians who had had recent lapses of discretion. Guess what. Neither time did they even MENTION David Vitter. Way to go, Turner. Time to restore the fairness doctrine and break up the media empires.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

8. the difference is...

if the prostitute is just playing with your shit it isn't really sex.