680News - Lisa Brandt

If I’ve learned anything in my time on this planet it’s that life is coloured with a wide range of hues; it’s not just black and white. And I have an inherent mistrust of anyone who takes a really hard line on themselves and others because all too often they’re unable to practise what they preach. Take New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer for example.

When he won in a landslide 14 months ago, Spitzer promised to clean up corruption and offered himself up as a respectable family man with a wife of 21 years and three teenaged daughters. Not all guys like him get caught up as a high-priced call girl customer in a corruption scandal investigation. But it seems that only a guy like him would find himself in such a position.

There’s a good chance you never even heard of Eliot Spitzer before the accusations that he spent as much as $80,000 on hookers and apologized — for nothing specific — with his sad and disappointed looking wife at his side. But that doesn’t really matter. You understand his position of trust and responsibility. You learn about his campaign platform and see how he has betrayed the trust of his constituents. You listen to New Yorkers call out for him to resign. You raise your eyebrows when you find out that a top-notch call girl can bring in more than five-grand for a couple of hours work!

This is a story we call a “talker.” People talk about it at water coolers and in break rooms because it’s just so foolish and reckless of this man to throw away everything he claimed to have stood for. Now we all watch together, to see what happens next.

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