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by bsder 4498 days ago
> until it turned out that the public are easy to convince that effective prosecuters should lose their jobs if they visit sex workers.

Well,at the time, I wondered how they nailed Spitzer. In retrospect, I suspect this was one of the first parallel construction scenarios.

However, I don't really care if people visit sex workers. Nevertheless, Spitzer was an anti-prostitution crusader. He deserved to lose his job for the hypocrisy.