WI Spitzer Stayed

Suppose the whole "Client Number 9" scandal just doesn't break -- what is Spitzer's governorship like? Does the fiscal crisis go down differently? What else?
 
I don't really dislike the guy, sure he's a scumbag but what politician isn't? He was better at cleaning up corruption than the guys who took over for him and it probably would have been better for New York. But I don't see a major difference in the financial crisis.
 

Japhy

Banned
You've got to remember Client Number 9 was just the latest in a long year of disasters for Spitzer that alienated him from everyone else in State Government. From using State Troopers to spy on the Senate Majority Leader, to trying to give licenses to illegal aliens, Spitzer did nothing but miss step from January 1st on.

Hubris, combined with an inability to develop working relations with the other power players in Albany Politics mean that Spitz' continual administration will be one string of disasters after another. The financial crisis which destroyed his replacements career will be bound to bring his down as well, perhaps though, with a bit more witch hunting on Wall Street, which is what he made his name doing as state AG.
 
You've got to remember Client Number 9 was just the latest in a long year of disasters for Spitzer that alienated him from everyone else in State Government. From using State Troopers to spy on the Senate Majority Leader, to trying to give licenses to illegal aliens, Spitzer did nothing but miss step from January 1st on.

Hubris, combined with an inability to develop working relations with the other power players in Albany Politics mean that Spitz' continual administration will be one string of disasters after another. The financial crisis which destroyed his replacements career will be bound to bring his down as well, perhaps though, with a bit more witch hunting on Wall Street, which is what he made his name doing as state AG.
I think it's telling, and very much in line with the above, that he was caught in the call girl thing by regulation HE himself put in place!

Ja, he did a really good job as AG, and started out OK as governor. Too bad he couldn't keep it together.
 
I think it's telling, and very much in line with the above, that he was caught in the call girl thing by regulation HE himself put in place!


Agreed.

As noted in an earlier thread about the recent idiot in the South Carolina governor's mansion, sooner or later Spitzer's hubris is going to sink him.

As for the other part of the OP's question, the looming financial meltdown is too huge to be even slightly effected by Spitzer's continued presence in Albany. Economies and the politicians minding them worldwide were addicted to cheap credit and, like junkies they resembled, were willing to go to any lengths to ensure their "fix" kept coming.
 
It wasn't the soliciting of the prostitute that he resigned over; that wasn't even what the FBI was interested in... it was the illegal siphoning of campaign money for personal use (which he used to buy hookers amongst other things) that they had been tipped off on and that would have lead to his impeachment.

Spitzer was a dead man walking that year anyway, his personal popularity was getting killed over troopergate and his heavy handedness against the legislature. Andy was also not on the best of terms with him, and very well might have primaried him if he somehow survived
 
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