Silda Wall Spitzer

(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer, with his wife again at his side, announced his resignation in a short press conference this morning. The New York governor apologized for his "private" misconduct, again without making direct reference to the prostitution scandal that has ended his political career. "I am deeply sorry that...

(Newser) - Silda Wall Spitzer was a reluctant first lady of New York, but when her husband's dalliances became public she was one of the few people urging him not to resign, the New York Times reports. Silda all but begged Eliot to stay in office, and if she means it, it...

(Newser) - Silda Wall Spitzer, the Harvard-educated lawyer who stood grimly alongside her husband during his somewhat perplexing apology yesterday, joins the ranks of political wives who suffer publicly the sex scandals of their disgraced mates, ABC writes. She follows in the footsteps of Larry Craig's wife, Suzanne; Jim McGreevey's then-wife, Dana:...