Elliot Spitzer......

[bokworker]

Nice..... if the NY Times is correct then Elliot Spitzer has been implicated with involvement in a $5500/hour prostitution ring... well, not just prostitution, according to the company's web site it facilitated the introduction of wealthy businessmen with models and provided investment advice.

I guess it was kind of a "value added" shop...

[Conan71]

Most fascinating thing about this article, is not once is it mentioned that Eliot Spitzer is a Democrat- not once that I found unless I glossed over it.  NYT doesn't have a problem putting "Republican" somewhere in the first paragraph or headline in instances like Larry Craig or Mark Foley.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_on_re_us/spitzer_prostitution

[hoodlum]

a lot of that had to do with the fact that

Mark Foley was chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, which introduced legislation targeting sexual predators and created stricter guidelines for tracking them.

and

Larry Craig was a supporter of the Defense of Marriage Act

both were republicans which pride themselves on demonizing homosexuality and both were found to be incredible hypocrites. So the fact that they were republicans was entirely relevant.

[Conan71]

You are aware that Eliot Spitzer was instrumental in breaking up a prominent NYC prostitution ring as a prosecutor, yes?

Smacks of hypocrasy to me regardless of which political party.  Point is, NYT isn't so quick to out Democrats and their various proclivities and perversions.

[inteller]

Sorry, but no whore is worth $5500....I don't care if she lays eggs of gold.

So much for good guy Spitzer.

Se what happens to bad sex lives?  'course I saw the wife beside him so I can understand.

$5500 prolly just to get a BJ and decide whether Yahoo was a good stock.

The world needs more head.

[FOTD]

Hoodlum's right Conan.....big diff in party regards. But you are correct on hypocricy.
ethics ? what ethics ?....sheesh, who can you trust in power these days...

How come all these lawyers like the hos so much?

[hoodlum]

yeah but is a major part of the Democratic platform protecting americans from the evils of prostitution like a major part of the republican platform is protecting americans from the "so-called" evils of homosexuality?

i don't believe that the fact that elliot is a democrat has anything to do with the story, i do believe that Craig and Foley being republicans has a lot to do with their individual stories as points to an apparent hypocrisy within a platform of a major political party.

[Hawkins]

quote:Originally posted by inteller

Sorry, but no whore is worth $5500....I don't care if she lays eggs of gold.

So much for good guy Spitzer.

Se what happens to bad sex lives?  'course I saw the wife beside him so I can understand.

$5500 prolly just to get a BJ and decide whether Yahoo was a good stock.

The world needs more head.

Well now wait a minute, lets put this into perspective.

$5,000 to some of these guys is like half a days interest on their bank accounts.

NOW, how about a super hot model "whore" for that price?

Its the oldest profession in the world. It will never stop, and this isn't even a surprising story to hear about.

And to say that its the Dems... or Rebubs that only do this... LMAO.

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by Hawkins

quote:Originally posted by inteller

Sorry, but no whore is worth $5500....I don't care if she lays eggs of gold.

So much for good guy Spitzer.

Se what happens to bad sex lives?  'course I saw the wife beside him so I can understand.

$5500 prolly just to get a BJ and decide whether Yahoo was a good stock.

The world needs more head.

$5,000 to some of these guys is like half a days interest on their bank accounts.

NOW, how about a super hot model "whore" for that price?

really, for that price it would have to be a hollywood actress like Charlise Theron or Lindsay Lohan.  Or like a MAJOR model for Victoria's Secret.

For what all he was probably wanting done, probably wouldn't have taken more than half a hour tops.

[Breadburner]

Who says any of them know what they are doing.....Pamela Andeson now thats a diffrent story.....[]

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by hoodlum

yeah but is a major part of the Democratic platform protecting americans from the evils of prostitution like a major part of the republican platform is protecting americans from the "so-called" evils of homosexuality?

i don't believe that the fact that elliot is a democrat has anything to do with the story, i do believe that Craig and Foley being republicans has a lot to do with their individual stories as points to an apparent hypocrisy within a platform of a major political party.

So according to yours and FOTD's logic, being a Democrat makes it okay when you sneak around behind the backs of your wife and children to buy a piece of donkey, even after publicly prosecuting the trade, yes?

So it's somehow less of a crime or not such a big deal when a registered Democrat humiliates his entire family and a state by engaging in illegal activity with prostitutes?

Sheesh, if that makes it all kosher, why have I waited so long to register as a Democrat?

FWIW- 1 1/2 years later, still no criminal charges brought against Mark Foley.

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

They do mention that he is a Demoncrat in the story.

"Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing inquiry.

The New York Democrat, identified in legal papers as "Client 9," met last month with at least one woman in a Washington hotel, the law enforcement official said."

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by bokworker

Nice..... if the NY Times is correct then Elliot Spitzer has been implicated with involvement in a $5500/hour prostitution ring... well, not just prostitution, according to the company's web site it facilitated the introduction of wealthy businessmen with models and provided investment advice.

I guess it was kind of a "value added" shop...

hahahahahahahahahahahaha.......

[Ed W]

Why is someone's sex life relevant to their job as a public servant?  Sergeant Stanley Wojohowitz - a great American - once said that you can't open a Sears catalog without finding something someone wants to sleep with.  Does being privately kinky make any of us publicly incompetent?

Americans need to grow up and stop treating sex as a dirty, shameful act.  They need to get past the adolescent Beavis and Butthead snickering, and realize that our leaders are no less human as the rest of us.  

And if your idea of sex involves Craftsman power tools, well, enjoy yourself but try to keep the noise down.

[hoodlum]

nope not what i am saying at all

What I am saying is that both Mark Foley and Larry Craig come from a background and political party who makes it their business to legislate moral issues and in doing so protecting american families against the "so-called" evils of homosexuality. So when they become entangled in scandals involving homosexuality themselves then the fact that they are Republicans is completely and 100% relevant to the discussion at hand. Even more so because now the story shifts from individuals and their bad choices to an overall discussion about a republican party who advocates legislation against homosexual lifestyles when members of their own party are engaged in the same lifestyle that their party platform is hell bent on demonizing.

If the Democratic Party platform was closely tied to the prevention of prostitution in America as major party issue and if Elliot was a leading member against prostitution then i would say his party is relevant. The fact that the democratic party platform doesn't address at all the evils of prostitution or makes it a major wedge issue at election time means that if a democrat gets busted for prostituion the story ends there because there is no greater discussion of hypocrisy within the foundation of the democratic party.

Thats why I say it doesn't matter that he is a democrat.

Now if Elliot was a republican? then again it matters because it calls to task the legitimacy of the entire morals platform of the republican party because the republican party makes it an issue to legislate morality.

just my 2 cents