Eliot Spitzer has resigned! His resignation is effective on Monday, March 17. The disgraced New York Governor was supposedly to be Client 9 who offered more than USD4000 for callgirl Kristen's service in a Washington Mayflower Hotel in February.
Flanked by his wife, Mr Spitzer, a leading Democrat, told a news conference: "I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people's work."
He once again apologised for failing to live up to the standards he demanded of others - but he gave no details.
In a brief resignation statement, he said: "Over the course of my public life I have insisted, I believe correctly, that people regardless of their position or power take responsibility for their conduct.
"I can and will ask no less of myself."
He added: "I go forward with the belief, as others have said, that as human beings our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."