The Eliot Spitzer jokes began circulating around the Statehouse right away Tuesday morning as lawmakers returned to work from their town meeting break.
In one of the Senate committee rooms Tuesday morning, the jokes seemed to come like rapid fire from a machine gun.
"Hey, weren't you in Washington at the same time?" one senator said to the other, referring to the New York governor's tryst with a call girl in D.C. on Feb. 13.
"No, but I think the governor was," the senator responded.
"Oh, Jim Douglas wouldn't pay $5,000 for anything," quipped another senator, this one a Republican, to a round of hearty laughter.
Interestingly, another senator recounted her early days as a social worker assigned to the seedier parts of Albany, N.Y. a few decades ago. One of her beats was a few of the Houses of Sin in the city, bringing welfare information to the ladies working there. She said it was pretty common to see N.Y. lawmakers coming in and out of those establishments.
-Dan Barlow
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