Aide: Spitzer May Defy Calls To Step Down
March 11, 2008
A top aide to Governor Spitzer said today Mr. Spitzer has not made up his mind about whether to step down from office despite mounting calls for his resignation amid allegations that he arranged to meet with a $4,300-a-night prostitute in the nation’s capital on the eve of Valentine’s Day.
“He has not made up his mind,” a senior adviser to Mr. Spitzer, Lloyd Constantine, said. “It is more correct to say that he is not resigning.”
Another source close to the governor said Mr. Spitzer was refusing to resign until he clinches an agreement with federal authorities about charges that he could face. “I don’t think anything happens for a couple of weeks,” the source said.
The assessment of the governor’s frame of mind by one of his closest associates conflicted with the general consensus in Albany, which is bracing for the downfall of New York’s top Democrat and the assumption of power by the state’s first African-American governor, Lieutenant Governor David Paterson, who is in Albany.
A spokeswoman for the governor said Mr. Spitzer, who is secluded today with his family in his Upper East Side home, said he hadn’t informed his staff of his decision.
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