Letters to the Editor
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Dignity
I admire her dignity. I liked when Dina Matos McGreevey said she stood there to support "her daughter's father". I admire those who display the concepts of "commitment" and "forgiveness". And I feel empathy for her suffering during this ordeal.
I feel I have no business opining about her marriage. But as a citizen I can opine about Eliot Spitzer, the public servant. Today I was moved to wonder where the greater damage to the public is when I heard Chris Wallace call Spitzer "The Bully of Wall Street". The people he was "bullying" were top investment banks and mutual fund brokerages who were breaking laws to give unfair advantage to their friends. They were cheating. They were unfairly and illegally taking money from the ordinary investors. Their illegal profits didn't come from thin air - they came from ordinary, less powerful people's pockets. He prosecuted several cases and many of the top firms.
He also cracked down on unfair practices in the insurance industry. (Do you feel like you should pay more in insurance rates because some insurance executive wants to make even more money than he already does?)
So he bullied rich powerful executives and Wall Street and insurance firms telling them that if they tried to cheat and illegally take money from ordinary people - he would stop them.
What a bully. So question:
Who is happiest to see him humiliated and to see his career ended?