I’ve Seen My Share of Spitzers: The View From an Escort Service
When I was in law school, a prostitute tried to recruit me. She said, “It’s $200 for 20 minutes worth of work.” She took my silence as signifying that she had scored a point. In fact, all it meant is that I realized that I could never get her to understand my point of view.
The governor of any state is in a position of public trust, and his decisions should not be influenced, for example, by the Mafia enforcer for his favorite madam. According to the press reports, this investigation originated because of odd bank transfers that could have been blackmail payments.
Had he been a businessman, his name would probably not have surfaced, unless there had been other illegal activity besides prostitution. Had he been a normal Democratic politician, he could have weathered this crisis.
But in this case, the customer turned out to be a spectacular hypocrite, a former prosecutor who had used old prostitution laws to ruin the lives of people who are better than he. That’s why this story broke, and that’s why he’s a joke, and that’s why he had to resign.
