# Governor Spitzer caught with his pants down **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-spitzer-caught-with-his-pants-down/440865 "2008-03-10T19:32:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-spitzer-caught-with-his-pants-down/440865/121 "2008-03-13T15:02:02Z")
_Time_ magazine says that Spitzer just last year signed a bill increasing possible jail time for prostitution johns from three months to a year. Oh, the irony… ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-spitzer-caught-with-his-pants-down/440865/122 "2008-03-13T16:45:01Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] _Time_ magazine says that Spitzer just last year signed a bill increasing possible jail time for prostitution johns from three months to a year. Oh, the irony… [/QUOTE] But his crime (the one he is being dinged for the most) occurred in Wash DC, so his laws clearly don’t apply to him. This is just in case someone doesn’t get the tongue-in-cheek aspect of the last statement ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-spitzer-caught-with-his-pants-down/440865/123 "2008-03-13T17:31:52Z")
The latest reports are that he partook of the Emperor’s Club “wares” eight times or so. Do we know that each occasion was outside of New York State? ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-spitzer-caught-with-his-pants-down/440865/124 "2008-03-13T17:43:09Z")
[QUOTE=KSO] I think that in addition to $5,500 being chump change to a multimillionaire, the appeal is quite clear–the guy gets a hot young chick who will do whatever he wants, however he wants, without complaint. At the end the hour or whatever, she leaves: he doesn’t have to pretend he cares about her, he doesn’t have to have a conversation with her, he doesn’t have to listen to her bitch about how he hasn’t painted the bathroom or hasn’t taken out the garbage or is a jerk to her mother, etc., etc., etc. [/QUOTE] Ding ding ding, we have a winner! I haven’t been keeping up with the thread, but my .02 are that a) Prostitution shouldn’t be illegal, but regulated, after all, it’s ALL prostitution on some level, just because some encounters might lead to a phoney baloney marriage is essentially meaningless in the grand scheme. b) Though he may be a cad for having done this, as someone with such great responsibility which means very little free time, it would be, shall we say, difficult to wait for the Mrs to be in the mood, especially if you only got to see her once or twice a week. c) For the record, IMO, if I was renting ANYONE for that kind of cash, there would be some kind of home improvement happening after sexy time. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-spitzer-caught-with-his-pants-down/440865/125 "2008-03-13T18:06:41Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] The latest reports are that he partook of the Emperor’s Club “wares” eight times or so. Do we know that each occasion was outside of New York State? [/QUOTE] That’s why I pointed out that it was the one for which he was nailed (pun intended). ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-spitzer-caught-with-his-pants-down/440865/126 "2008-03-14T15:07:30Z")
[WaPo article on Emperors club](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031204425.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-spitzer-caught-with-his-pants-down/440865.md?page=6)