New York's Democratic Governor, Eliot Spitzer, noted as a crime-busting U.S. Attorney , then New York Attorney General and elected Governor with 67% of the vote--has fessed up to patronizing a prostitution ring in Washington D.C. Known as Client #9, he came up on federal wiretaps and could no longer hide the scandal. It is still pending at this writing, whether he resigns or not, but several New York media outlets are predicting he will.
His dutiful wife, mother of his three teenaged daughters, appeared at his side at his press conference, in which he discussed few details. Sen. David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, has had similar troubles, but has remained in office. Probably New Orleans didn't earn it's nickname "The Big Easy," for nothing. It remains to be seen how "easy" New York is.
The salty former President, Harry Truman, a scion of a Tammany Hall-style political machine in Kansas City had an earthy piece of advice to explain why he rose up out of the machine to become Mayor of Kansas City and then U.S. Senator from Missouri, before FDR made him vice president: "You have to learn when to keep your pants zipped."
(Another favorite Truman story was when the President and Mrs. Truman were escorting a group through the White House Rose Garden, and the guests were marvelling at the beautiful roses. Truman said it was because the gardeners used "good manure." One of the guests whispered to Mrs. Truman that he should say "fertilizer." Bess Truman answered "That's not bad--It's taken me 50 years to get him to say manure.")
Eliot Spitzer should have studied his Democratic history, and taken Harry Truman's sage advice.
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