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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer said on Wednesday that he will resign effective Monday after allegedly spending thousands of dollars on meetings with prostitutes.
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"I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have been," Spitzer said, with his expressionless wife Silda standing at his side. "There is much more to be done, and I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people's work."
His wife took deep breaths as hundreds of photos were taken at close range. Each of Spitzer's words was accompanied by a rush of camera clicks.
Eliot Spitzer deserves to be flogged for what he's done to Silda, making her stand there beside him.
And Silda needs to have her head examined for doing so. If I had done anything remotely similar to this you'd be reading about me in a missing persons report. |
Lt. Gov. David Paterson, slated to take Spitzer's place, requested that the resignation would go into effect next week in order to have more time to put a transition team in place. Paterson will become the governor of New York when he is publicly sworn in on Monday. Paterson will become just the eighth black governor in American history, the first in New York. |