Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has hired one of the best spinmeisters in the business to help him climb out of the pit of public disgrace.

Roger J. Stone Jr. has spent most of his adult life engaged in what some call “aggressive campaign tactics” and others call “dirty tricks.”

There’s more trouble for former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. The New York Times reports that Spitzer was “deeply involved” in the effort to discredit State Senate majority leader Joseph Bruno last year. Previously, Spitzer had said he was not personally involved.

For Eliot Spitzer, Ashley Alexandra Dupre was the nail in his political coffin. For Girls Gone Wild founder and CEO Joe Francis, she is a “lottery ticket.”

One day into his term as governor of New York State, David A. Paterson, in a kind of preemptive act, disclosed his past marital infidelities.

The man sworn in today as New York’s 55th governor may be virtually unknown to non-New Yorkers, but he is a seasoned political player and the scion of a legendary political clubhouse that has been a lever of black political power in the state.

Eliot Spitzer is out of a job as of tomorrow.

But even though the soon-to-be-former New York governor has suffered an astonishing fall because of his alleged involvement with prostitutes, he hasn’t yet been charged with a crime.

It’s not only talk-show hosts who feed off of politicians’ sex scandals

The KGB had a slogan: “Show me the man, and I’ll find you his crime.”

Which is to say that just because New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer hung himself by becoming Client 9 in the federal complaint against an alleged prostitution ring doesn’t mean that a Republican-controlled Justice Department wasn’t out to get him.

Playing out the final scene of an almost Shakespearean drama, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned in disgrace today after revelations that he had been caught on wiretaps arranging to meet a high-priced call girl in a Washington hotel.