"Resign? Resign on this, *$%!".
I don't see how a Governor who has admitted long-term involvement with an illegal practice that he has denounced as criminal & prosecuted, involves sex and shows a blatant disregard for prudent spending practices ($80,000 for for 20+ hours?- ah well, cheaper than a 2d marriage I guess), can survive for long, I don't think trying to force him out through the press and public shame is going to work. He has a well-deserved reputation as a bulldog and fighter and the piling on will incline him to dig in- if he can survive this week, he can survive his term though with very limited effectiveness. The press, in their undeclared bias for narrative arc, are pushing this the same way they push for the primary process to declare a winner. NY politics becoming a circus is not helpful to HRC (or to Bloomberg should he ever reconsider)
Ah well something to tide us over until Pennsylvania
Update: Apparently, this post was compelling. NY Times is reporting that he's going to go this morning. However, the Yogi mantra applies until it happens
posted by New England Guy @ 6:34 AM
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Public opinion was running 70% in favor of his resignation, there were public and private calls from his own party members for him to resign, and absolute silence in his favor. As one commentator on NPR put it, "you'd think someone who showed such disdain for who he was offending and upsetting would know enough to protect his own back."
"I'm resigning due to my personal failings"--Actually not, he resigned because he got caught. This was an apparently on-going activity which would have presumably continued without the exposure.
Also the bland comments from the candidates- "hoping for the best for the governor in this time of tragedy" - What exactly was the tragedy- that he got caught, that illegal/unseemly activity was exposed?
The press, public opinion, party calls had nothing to do with it. His resignation is part of his deal to get a slap on the wrist for the federal charges that will be brought. It was a legal bargaining chip. If he'd done nothing illegal but had been caught with a mistress shacked up in a Fifth Avenue penthouse, he'd still have a job. But because a services agreement for sex between two consenting adults is illegal in this country, he goes down.
The timing tends to suggest that it's not being used as a legal bargaining chip. If it were, he wouldn't resign until he had a deal in hand.
I'm guessing that he has a deal in hand but that it has not been formalized or has a handshake from the prosecutor on it (Honor among thieves sorta thing)
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