That picture tells it all about the politics in Albany doesn’t it…. But the quote below is spot on right. The political class is reluctant to question and expose any malfeasance… This makes them all guilty of corruption IMHO.
That the truth is only coming out now underscores how corrupt the political culture of Albany is, and how reluctant the political class was to question the malfeasance of a powerful and vindictive Governor. Now that he’s out, we may finally learn the truth. But New York voters can consider themselves fortunate that a sex scandal ended Mr. Spitzer’s career before his sense of righteous entitlement did far more harm to their state.
The Other Spitzer Scandal – WSJ.com
Cultural sophisticates lament that Eliot Spitzer was driven from office this month by a mere sex scandal. Yet now that he’s gone, we’re learning that he also had far more to do than he’s admitted with a scheme to smear Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.
Prior to the revelations about the Democratic ex-Governor’s assignations with prostitutes, it appeared that Mr. Spitzer had stonewalled everyone on the scandal known in New York as “Troopergate.” Albany County District Attorney David Soares exonerated Mr. Spitzer last year after an initial investigation of the scheme to get state troopers to track his political opponent. But inconsistencies in the testimony of long-time Spitzer enforcer Darren Dopp sent Mr. Soares back to revisit his earlier whitewash.
And now that Governor Steamroller is Private Citizen Spitzer, leaks from the DA’s office are making clear that Mr. Spitzer was deeply involved in the smear campaign, even repeatedly calling Mr. Dopp at home to ensure that the leaks would produce a damaging story. Mr. Soares got Mr. Dopp to talk by offering him immunity from prosecution. But there’s no question that every public employee in the state — from Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to the Public Integrity Commission to Mr. Soares himself — was, at a minimum, treating the question of Mr. Spitzer’s involvement with kid gloves as long as he remained Governor.
That the truth is only coming out now underscores how corrupt the political culture of Albany is, and how reluctant the political class was to question the malfeasance of a powerful and vindictive Governor. Now that he’s out, we may finally learn the truth. But New York voters can consider themselves fortunate that a sex scandal ended Mr. Spitzer’s career before his sense of righteous entitlement did far more harm to their state.
My father was a town councilman for over 30 years. I’ll never forget him saying “Don’t ever call me a politician!” He hated politics. All he wanted to do was serve the people of the town where he was born. And he did that and did it well.
Eliot Spitzer represents the arrogant, egotistical political class which is more interested in furthering political careers and less interested in honest service and problem solving. More disturbing than Spitzer himself is that those who worked to elect him did so by using the irrational BDS of the past 5 years. They fronted a highly-flawed candidate who played the same game of nastiness and hate they do and now it’s coming back to bite them.