Why could Rudy get away with boinking his mistress in the mayor's mansion

[rox63]

while his wife and kids were still living there, but Spitzer is expected to resign because he hired prostitutes? :shrug:

Edit to correct mistake about location of boinking.

[shain from kane]

1. He was screwing her in the governor's mansion, too?

[ananda]

2. Not that I know of..

..

[shain from kane]

4. Shhhhhh! I think he means the mayor's mansion, but I'm not going to tell him.

[rox63]

17. Yeah, I did mean the the mayor's mansion

I hope there's still time to fix it. :blush:

[rox63]

3. Yep, while the wife and kids still lived there

It was pretty outrageous. But for all his affairs while he was mayor (even pre-Judy), no one made him resign.

[walldude]

5. Republican..

What? You planning to hold the Democrats to the standard that Republicans set? Good plan :eyes:


It's not the sex, it's the hypocrisy and the stupidity. Same thing I said about Vitter and Craig.

[EmilyAnne]

6. 9-11?

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Actions being at complete opposite angles to words...

No shrugging needed. Spitzer is a hypocrite, on record now. Get it? And I don't see too many here holding up Guiliani to any kind of pedestal.

[theboss]

13. Spitzer also commited a crime; Rudy did not

Honestly, there is a pretty big freakin' difference here.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. They're both creeps but Spitzer should resign immediately.

[MNDemNY]

8. Screwing a Mistress is not illegal, hiring a prostitute,

and having her sent across state lines for that purpose, is illegal on at least 2 fronts.

[sam sarrha]

9. there was a lot of boinking in the Energancy Control Center WTC.. before 911 too

[eleny]

10. You need to ask?

Oh, grasshopper!

[ashling]

11. He wasn't "paying" for it

Everybody else was

[apnu]

14. Not only that but he didn't take her out of state for sex and pay her too.

Spitzer broke federal law with that one.

[theboss]

12. Well, being a pig is not illegal at this time.

Mailing money to a whore is.

And Rudy didn't exactly get away with it. The Evangeicals in his party kept him from being president.

[uppityperson]

15. It's the hypocrisy. Repubs like Rudy are expected to do this sort of thing.

Democrats aren't. Aside from legalities. Hmmm, perhaps this shows that is really isn't about sex but about being legal or not?

[Ghost in the Machine]

20. Why aren't the repigs screaming for David Vitter to resign, then?

He admitted to using prostitutes, and even took a call from the DC Madam while on the floor during a vote...

Fuck the republicans and they shitwagons they rode in on...

[renate]

16. being an a$$hole is not against the law

Hiring prostitutes is.

Personally, I'd say that hiring prostitutes is less of an insult to his wife than having an emotional as well as a physical affair would have been, and an affair would have been no reason to resign. But the law, however intrusive and illogical in this case, is the law.

[mirrera]

19. Eww Rudy and boinking same sentence... thanks.

[TechBear_Seattle]

21. Guliani is a Republicker, duh!

The law doesn't apply to them.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

22. Double Standard

And they didn't want to screw up Rudy's presidential ambitions, though we all know how well *that* worked out. I guess it's okay to do whatever you want as long as you have an "R" beside your name. :sarcasm:

(edit for repug dig)

[goodhue]

23. Because Spitzer broke the law and Rudy didn't?

[Chovexani]

24. Uh, you do know that Rudy went to court over Judy Nathan?

There was a long and shameful episode in which Rudy went to court to get the right to move his mistress into Gracie Mansion while the wife and kids were there.

No, it's not the same thing as illegally engaging in solicitation but the law was involved with that too.

[goodhue]

27. I thought that was in civil court, and not a criminal matter

[Javaman]

25. Because in GOP land, paying for sex is very very bad, it's worse than

just plain old cheating.

[Thepricebreaker]

26. Your kidding right? Rudy didnt do anything illegal. Spitzer did.. Case closed.

[Dorian Gray]

28. Prostitution

is illegal. He is violating the law. Adultery can be called immoral, I suppose, but it's not in direct violation of law.

Rudy is a prick, but he didn't flaunt the laws in this way.