{"id":1701,"date":"2008-03-11T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2008-03-11T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T02:28:00","slug":"scandals-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"Scandals Everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New York governor Eliot Spitzer<\/span> is in hot water after spending $15,000 on prostitutes<\/a>, in what Jon Stewart has dubbed ****gate:<\/p>\n

The prostitute, identified only as “Kristen,” worked for the Emperors Club. The group charged between $1,000 and $5,500 an hour and operated in New York; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; London, England; and Paris, France, according to court papers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A thousand dollars an hour? Holy crap! I don’t even think Julia Roberts charged that much in Pretty Woman.<\/p>\n

Now, I generally find these sort of scandals more interesting when they involve gay Republicans but, as far as sex scandals go, this is a good one. It also, yet again, raises the question of why Canada doesn’t really get any sex scandals – since the Munsinger<\/span> Affair over 40 years ago, our scandals have generally involved things like charging chewing gum to an expense account.<\/p>\n

But that’s not to say we don’t have scandals. The “please call it anything but NAFTAgate<\/span> scandal<\/em>” is now being investigated<\/a>. This one probably won’t turn into much of anything – I seriously doubt there was any intent from the PMO<\/span> to destroy the Obama<\/span> campaign. Worst case scenario is someone being a little too loose lipped<\/span> and a scapegoat being fired (now, if that scape goat is Ian Brodie, then it becomes big).<\/em><\/p>\n

The sleeper pick in March Scandal Madness right now is the Baird-O’Brien scandal<\/a> (BO scandal?) which I will not comment on, because it seems everyone who comments on Tory scandals winds up getting sued.<\/p>\n

And, that brings us to the big one – Cadscam<\/span>. With shifting stories, and the Tories reluctant<\/a> to flat out deny an offer was made, this one smells fishy. Greg Weston floats an interesting theory<\/a> today but, regardless of the Tory explanation, there are two certainties they can’t spin away:<\/p>\n

1. Harper is on tape saying an offer was made.
2. Cadman’s<\/span> entire family are sticking to the “million dollar life insurance policy” story. And, considering his wife is running for the Tories, there is no logical explanation for her to be making this up.<\/p>\n

I doubt anything will ever be proven so this won’t knock him out, but those two facts above are going to leave Harper with a black eye on this one.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York governor Eliot Spitzer is in hot water after spending $15,000 on prostitutes, in what Jon Stewart has dubbed ****gate: The prostitute, identified only as “Kristen,” worked for the Emperors Club. The group charged between $1,000 and $5,500 an hour and operated in New York; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; London, England; and Paris, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}