Albany, NY – As Gov. Spitzer is under scrutiny, in another bombshell a Spitzer administration energy adviser Steven Mitnick has resigned after seven months on the job amid an investigation of claims that he threatened a Republican on the Public Service Commission, Mitnick confirmed.
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In April, PSC member Cheryl Buley, an appointee of former Republican Gov. George Pataki, said Mitnick had threatened her to try to get her to back off efforts to investigate Consolidated Edison over last summer’s major blackout in New York City.
During a public PSC meeting, Buley said Mitnick had threatened her career five or six times since Gov. Eliot Spitzer took office Jan. 1. [ap]
Not exactly the same. Governor Spitzer presented himself (before, and during the campaign for Governor) as pure as the driven snow. In other words, a Tzaddik, a Saint. It now turns out, (un)fortunately, that he is a human being, driven by the same ambitions
and desires as the rest of us.
Spitzer is a policeman not a politician. Now he is an ineffective governor and not an effective and vigilante attorney general.
Same thing happened to Wolfowitz at the World Bank.