No Downtime for Eliot Spitzer
It's been 77 days since Eliot Spitzer resigned as New York's governor because he was caught patronizing prostitutes. So what's he been up to since? Has he just been vegging out in front of the TV, immobilized by depression, rueing how he squandered his political career by compulsively seeking out sex with hookers? Nope—he's got a day job! While his wife is defiantly attending benefits, and while the woman who facilitated his liaisons is pleading guilty to laundering money, Spitzer is punching in at the office of the only person willing to hire the most disgraced ex-governor: his father, ultra-rich real estate magnate Bernie Spitzer.
So what exactly does Spitzer do at work? The Observer dug around and the best they could get were vague descriptions: "What I hear from my sources is that he walks around and makes suggestions, or discusses ideas." So he walks around—insidery! But the article does point out that Spitzer will face immensely uncomfortable social situations if he sticks around: You can't do a big real estate deal without big financing, and nobody has more pent-up loathing for Spitzer more than big finance guys still reeling from his aggressive antagonization of them when he served as New York's attorney general. Awkward!
