God bless Eliot Spitzer. God bless Eliot's wife and children for the difficult times they are going through. I believe Eliot Spitzer must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. However, I also believe that this act does not erase all of the good he has done. I just want to take a second to try to put this in perspective for all of those morally outraged citizens. For 99 percent of us we will never be able to make the kind of mistake Spitzer made. We won't be able to make it because we didn't get our law degrees at Harvard, we didn't work countless hours fighting corruption and making New York a better place. I offer you two different ways to look at this incident.

One, do the math. Did the $80,000 Spitzer used of public money even slightly compare to the millions New Yorkers saved with his corruption prosecutions and environmental prosecutions?

Two, ask yourself this. Which of the following two politicians would you pick to be New York governor. Your first choice will never exhibit any moral flaws, but he will cost tens of millions of dollars to the average citizens because he keeps a blind eye on corruption and unethical business practices. The education system will also suffer terribly and many children will be worse off for it.

The second candidate will fight corruption, save tens of millions and increase opportunity for your children, but he will get busted buying hookers with public money.

I believe it is fair to say that if you picked politician number one then your priorities are perceived goodness over actual goodness. What good is a politician who is perceived as good, but does bad. When Spitzer does his time and pays for his mistakes I will vote for him if he tries to come back.

Finally, one thing I feel it is important to point out is that my letter is dependent on his only major flaw being hookers. If this is the tip of the iceberg, then ... that is a whole different letter.

In the end, this particular action does not change the facts of the great things Spitzer has done for New York. It only changes the perceptions people have created of him.

Dennis F. Rossbach

Moravia