March 23, 2008

Political Sex Scandals Month

I hope everyone had a good break and happy Easter. To get back in the groove I'm going to talk about the political sex scandals that have recently taken place.

Elliot Spitzer
Earlier this month Elliot Spitzer, former New York Governor, was reported to have been a regular customer of a high priced prostitution organization called Emporor's Club VIP. It has been said that Elliot Spitzer had paid more than $15,000 over a six month period for prostitution services at this organization and over $80,000 for other prostitutes over a couple years while he was Attorney General and Governor. This investigation was not originally for a suspicion of Spitzer receiving services from prostitutes, but suspicious money transfering. Authorities first believed that Spitzer had been illegally bribing people, but as you can see by using a wire tap found him having illegal confrontations with prostitutes. Elliot Spitzer later resigned as the New York Governor with his scandal projected into the public as the on March 12, 2008.

David Paterson
David Paterson was named the Governor of New York after Elliot Spitzer stepped down. This marked the first time ever that a New York Governor was African American and also legally blind. The day after David Paterson was inaugurated as New York Governor, he and his wife spoke out and acknowledged that they had both been involved in "straying" from their marriage in extramaritial affairs. This just coming days after the prostitution scandal of Elliot Spitzer was devestated the politics in New York.

Jim McGreevey
Also last week a driver for former Governor Jim McGreevey, Ted Pederson, stated that he had had multiple sexual encounters with Jim McGreevey and his wife. McGreevey's wife denied having these threesomes with her husband and their driver. She also rejected knowing that her husband was gay when she married him. Jim McGreevey however admits to having these threesomes. Pederson has claimed that these "Friday Night Specials" had occured before and after their marriage, but ended before MecGreevey became governor.

I hope that our government isn't becoming extremely corrupt with all these scandals currently being uncovered.

2 comments:

graingerworker said...

I do not understand why sex scandals in the government are equated with corruption and can sometimes lead to removal from power. What they do in their personal sex lives is their business and has no bearing on their ability to lead a constituency. In each of these cases you listed only 1 one illegal and even that was a victimless concentual "crime". Good post though man, these stories while I disagree with them becoming anything, are quite exciting.

Gina said...

This really has nothing to do with the sex scandals BUT isn't it strange how the country will be so hyped about the elections one day and the next day it will be like, wait, what there's an election? Its interesting to think about, but the media controls the way we feel and you can definitely see that during this election year.