Of all people, it was the crusader against organized crime and corporate wrongdoing who turned out to be a high-paying customer in a prostitution ring.
So who has the last laugh now at former Governor Eliot Spitzer? His Wall Street targets, his white collar convicts, Republican radio show hosts, and even us Trubys???
HA HA – Hold it! Thanks to public confessionals from the new New York Governor David Paterson about his past affairs and drug use and to Detroit’s latest setback involving Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s infidelity, perjury, and incessant text messaging, we see that the nation’s top leaders are vulnerable. And whether we want to admit it or not, we are too.
The reality is that the wrong decision will be easy to make throughout our careers. Sometimes we won’t know we’re doing wrong at the time. I, for one, swear I had no idea that a blinking red light was code for “Feed me any more paper and I’ll die.” Unfortunately, my decision to continue the task at hand resulted in a company casualty. RIP Shredder.
Other times we’ll know what we’re doing isn’t right. It always seems to start off innocently – we expense a beer tab that really wasn’t business related or we indulge in flirtatious conversation with a blind eye to the ring finger. But such activity can grow beyond our control and pretty soon we might be no better than the corporate tycoons who cook the books or the politicians who allocate tax dollars towards the cause of call girls.
So I’ll suspend my judgment for now and instead admire Eliot Spitzer for stepping down immediately in the interest of the people of New York. Plus, anything I say here is subject to being hypocritical. I still have an entire career ahead to make mistakes in…
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