According to ABC News, we might have been a little hasty in branding Eliot Spitzer some sort of weird sex pervert.

A 22-year-old escort found on another call-girl Web site claimed to ABC News in a phone interview that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been one of her customers two years ago when he was New York attorney general and that he was a nice guy who tipped well.

“He didn’t do anything that wasn’t clean,” she said, adding that she knew who he was because he had made calls from the attorney general’s office in Brooklyn, N.Y.

I guess we were all wrong. He isn’t weird, he’s…

Question: Just how bad has it gotten when you’re getting hookers regularly enough to know how much constitutes a good tip?

The Post scoops that he’s been hookin’ it for six years or more.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been soliciting high-priced hookers for at least six years and possibly for more than a decade, sources tell The Post.

The revelation yesterday that the crusading governor was in fact “Client 9″ named in a federal prostitution indictment did not shock insiders in the city’s sex industry.

Sources tell The Post that Spitzer had frequented high-priced hookers as far back as 2002 and possibly earlier.

Spitzer, who as attorney general lead investigations into prostitution, was among an elite group of powerbrokers and high-powered attorneys that regularly paid for dates at top escort agencies, sources said.

I’m making this the default Spitzer update post for a while, as the other one is just chock full of initial analysis.

Counterterrorism Blog details some of the technical aspects of catching Spitzer.

QandO’s Dale wishes he had the option, just the option, to spend the estimated $80,000 that Spitzer did on hookers.

Hot Air has sources that say Spitzer will resign tomorrow in exchange for a get out of jail free card.

Update 12:30AM CST 3/12/08:

Counterterrorism Blog has more on how Federal Banking Laws brought down Spitzer.

Gina Cobb sees this as a total, habitual disregard for the truth, among other things.

Blackfive links to a new Freefly that covers Spitzer.

Update 8:26AM CST 3/12/08: Michelle Malkin starts the resignation countdown clock.

Catskill Commentator says that Brian Ross on the Don Imus show reports that a letter of resignation has been drafted.

Pejman Yousefzadeh at Redstate examines the attempts to pin this on the Bush administration.

Update 9AM CST: AP says Spitzer to resign, but I’m finding it at the New York Post. Fox News says the resignation would take effect on Monday.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to resign and will begin notifying top state officials of his decision just after 9 a.m., The Post has learned.

Word began circulating of his decision in state political circles just minutes ago, which came after what one source called “an agonizing night,” as the governor’s wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, and the governor’s lawyers went over a possible plea deal offered by federal prosecutors, sources told The Post.

Resignation announcement scheduled for 11:30 Eastern.

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