View from across the pond
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- March
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”…the whole affair is a crock of nonsense, ‘’ the magazine said in an opinion column. “What business is it of the federal government what Mr. Spitzer got up to in Room 871 of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.?’’
That’s the room where Spitzer allegedly met a prostitute on the night of Feb. 13. His resignation takes effect at noon today, and he potentially faces criminal charges connected to the tryst.
Prostitution, the magazine pointed out, is “activity as old as human society,’’ and suggests that federal investigators focus on more serious matters, “such as looking for terrorists.’’
The magazine expressed frustration with what it sees as the United States’ unfortunate combination of “puritanism’’ and a legal system “that is out of control.’’
It was Spitzer’s misfortune, perhaps, to have been a politician on this side of the pond.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
