Spitzer Is Poised To Resign Today
March 12, 2008
After agonizing over the decision, Governor Spitzer will capitulate to the growing clamor for his resignation over his alleged link to a high-end prostitution ring and turn over the reins of power to Lieutenant Governor David Paterson as early as today, according to three senior aides.
Throughout the day yesterday, Mr. Spitzer, holed up in his Fifth Avenue high-rise apartment, teetered between surrender and defiance, with one of his closest associates pleading with him not to give up and with a large number of his aides urging him to protect his family and step down.
The argument in favor of resignation ultimately prevailed and Mr. Spitzer, 48, conceded that Monday’s stunning disclosure that he was a regular customer of a high-priced prostitution service, Emperors Club VIP, left him with no choice but to accept that his once-soaring political career had crashed, aides told The New York Sun under condition of anonymity.
Mr. Paterson, 53, a legally blind Harlem resident who was a minority leader of the state Senate, is set to become New York’s first African-American governor and serve out the remainder of Mr. Spitzer’s four-year term.
As of yesterday evening, the governor had no event listed on his public schedule today. He has been secluded in his home with his wife since Monday, when he offered an oblique and brief apology at his Manhattan headquarters for unspecified ethical violations.
Since then, New York’s government has been in a state of suspended animation as lawmakers, lobbyists, and state officials awaited word on whether a humiliated governor would call it quits.
Source: NY Sun Read the full story here
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