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Another Reason I *Heart* the Spitz

Jill

Taking responsibility, admitting you were wrong and apologizing is not easy. I give Gov. Spitzer a lot of credit for doing it.

We made mistakes.

Though two independent investigations proved that no illegal activity occurred on my watch, it is crystal clear that what members of my administration did was wrong — no ifs, ands or buts.

I have apologized to Joe Bruno, the Senate majority leader, and now I want to apologize to all New Yorkers.

Can you picture our current President ever saying something like that?

4 thoughts on Another Reason I *Heart* the Spitz

  1. I was glad he did it, but it seemed weaselly to say that it was members of his administration that did it. He could have simply said “my administration” and shouldered the blame – the way he worded it was more “sorry I didn’t keep a close enough eye on my peeps, but it wasn’t really my fault”.

  2. Though he did say “we made mistakes”, rather than the notorious use of the passive voice: “mistakes were made.”

  3. The state police scandal is only beginning. Spitzer’s “apology” was merely a weak attempt at damage control. It certainly wasn’t an act of courage — he’s been stonewalling for weeks, and only issued the statement because he was backed into a corner after his top aides carelessly documented their lies in e-mails.

    Virtually no Albany observer doubts that Spitzer was in on the plot to discredit Bruno from day one. Just today it came out that Spitzer secretly deputized two lawyers to act as counsel to the aides so that they could assert attorney/client privilege if questioned about his participation. The only reason the Cuomo report stopped short of recommending criminal charges was that governor’s office obstructed testimony from the people who could incriminate him. Things will look much different once the Ethics Committee (or more likely the Legislature) gets to ask the tough questions.

    This isn’t the first time Spitzer’s engaged in this kind of behavior. He’s on record as lying about the source of his 1998 Attorney General campaign funds, lies he claims he told because “he had to.”

    The rest of New York’s politicians aren’t much better than Spitzer. Albany certainly needs cleaning up. But after this scandal, the governor isn’t going to be in a position to do it.

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