Governor X’s looming sex scandal
A prostitute who allegedly slept with Eliot Spitzer is implicating another married governor.
Madam Kristin Davis claims to have arranged trysts with a prostitute for an as-yet-unnamed governor.
(AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
Mark Sanford is trying to win his wife’s forgiveness, said George Rush and Joanna Malloy in the New York Daily News, but another married governor could be headed toward “fresh hell.” A “high-end escort” who's already said she had rough sex with then–New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is claiming that she also had three sex “dates” with another of our “most prominent governors”—call him Gov. X—whose wife is “prominent in her own right.”
This story has to be “prompting a variety of quiet phone calls” among some governors' staff, said Moe Lane in RedState. As for the rest of us, the speculation begins. “Fortunately, there’s a dearth of male Republican governors of states within reasonable driving distance of NYC.”
Any Democratic governor “would likely have been brought down right alongside Eliot Spitzer,” said Teddy Partridge in Firedoglake. Whoever Gov. X is was in office in 2006, and has a “media-saavy-enough” staff to stop the Daily News from “printing his name,” even though it got a “carefully parsed denial” from his office.
“Let’s speculate recklessly!” said Gawker. Based on the criteria from the Daily News story, the most likely governors are, in order, Arnold Schwarzenegger (R, Calif), Ed Rendell (D, Pa), Jim Gibbons (R, Nev.), and Deval Patrick (D, Mass). We’d throw in Tim Pawlenty (R, Minn.), too, but only because he’s a potential 2012 GOP candidate.
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Posted by Ryan, Monday, July 20, 2009, 8:40 am Its Rendell. He is the only one within driving distance of NYC.
Posted by Terry Magdeburg, Monday, July 20, 2009, 9:45 am Gibbons can get hookers legally and cheaper in his own state, so it's not him. It's either Ahhnald or Fast Eddie Rendell
Posted by bob dole, Monday, July 20, 2009, 10:31 am Arnold's wife is the only one that is prominent in her own right, so that limits it a bit.
Posted by Accurate, Monday, July 20, 2009, 12:43 pm Bob Dole,That is wishful thinking on your part that Gov. Arnold is the only one with a prominent wife. Fast Eddie Rendell's wife is a Third Ciruit Judge who was appointed by Bill Clinton.
Posted by Dave, Monday, July 20, 2009, 12:47 pm Jim Gibbons nor Deval PAtrick were governors in March 2006.It's either EdRendell or Tim Kaine, both Democrats.
Posted by Fred, Monday, July 20, 2009, 1:00 pm WHO cares? It's only hookers. It's not like they molested children. They got what they wanted: sex. The hooker got what she wanted: money. Where is the problem exactly? This is not news.
Posted by Just Guessing, Monday, July 20, 2009, 1:09 pm Throw some more options out there all Govs in office in 2006:1. Blago2. Martin O'Malley Maryland3. John Lynch New HampshireIn terms of the famous wife, if the call girl found out who the wife was prior to 2008, I say you have to go with Arnold. But if she figured it out in 2008, I think Blago should be in for consideration. I don't like Rendell for it, but I think Martin O'Malley is an interesting option.
Posted by mike van den abbeel, Monday, July 20, 2009, 1:12 pm Whomever he is, his judgement should be questioned, this hooker is down right nasty. To pay top dollar for her is fiscal irresponsibility.
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