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Show t Wednesday. Mjxh 17, 2008 D A I V L (RAID H A3 Officials: Spitzcr spent tens of tliousaiids of dollars on Michael Gormley THE ASSOCIATED ALBANY, N.Y.-- PRESS With pressure mounting on Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign over a call-giscandal, investigators said Tuesday he was clearly a repeat customer who spent tens of thousands of dollars rl perhaps as much as $80,000 with the prostitution service over an extended period of time. Spitzer and his family, mean' while, remained secluded in their Fifth Avenue apartment, while Republicans began talking impeachment, and few if any fellow Democrats came forward to defend him. A high-price- d death watch of sorts began at the state Capitol, where whispers of "What have you heard?" echoed through nearly every hallway of the ornate, building. Chi Monday, when the scandal broke, prosecutors said in court papers that Spitzer had been caught on a wiretap spending $4,300 with the Emserperors Club VIP call-givice, with some of the money going toward a night with a prostitute named Kristen, and the rest to be used as credit toward future trysts. The papers also suggested that Spitzer had done this before. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a law enforcement official said Tuesday that Spitzer, in fact, had spent tens of thousands of dollars with the Emperors Club. Another official said the amount could be as high as $80,000. But it was not clear over what period of time that was spent. Still another law enforcement official said investigators found that during the tryst with Kristen on the night before Valentine's Day, Spitzer used two rooms at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington one for himself, the other for the prostitute. Sometime around 10 p.m., Spitzer sneaked away from his security detail and made his way to the room where she was waiting, the official said. In the court papers, an Emperors Club employee was quoted as telling Kristen that Client 9 Spitzer, according to investigators "would ask you to do things that ... you might not think were safe," and Kristen responded by saying: "I have a way of dealing with that. ... I'd be, like, listen, dude, you really want the sex?" A law enforcement official said Tuesday the discussion had to do with Spitzer's preference not to wear a condom and the insistence that he use one. Meanwhile, Albany insiders on Tuesday said the governor was still trying to decide how to proceed. Options included quitting immediately, or waiting to use resignation as a bargaining chip with federal prosecutors to avoid indictment. Democrats privately floated another option, telling The Associated Press that Spitzer was considering what was almost unthinkable immediately after Monday's bombshell apology; hanging on. "If the public is fine, he'll stay," said a Democrat who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. Still, Spitzer's many enemies from Albany and Wall Street were emboldened, and some of his friends went from shock to outrage. "Particularly because of the reform platform on which he was elected governor, his abil togovern the state of New York and execut e his dut ies as governor have been irreparably damaged," said Citizens Union, a group that supported the crusading attorney general for governor in 2006 and provided critical support in his effort to reform Albany. "It is our strong belief that it is now impossible for him to fulfill his responsibilities as governor. Accordingly, Citizens Union urges him to resign as governor." The case against Spitzer, a married man A' . I :- ber of the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, has been retained to represent the governor. In Albany, Democratic Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who w ould become governor if Spitzer resigned, was talking to legislative Naders about a possible transition. Reporters, government workers and the public milled around the state Capitol on Tuesday, waiting for any developments. News vans lined up around the building, and cam suspic- 25 ring era operators sat next to their trijxxls on' the front lawn waiting for something to happen. Assembly Republican leader James Tedisco warned that if Spitzer did not resign within 48 hours, he would call for impeachment. But any impeachment would face a difficult road in the Democrat controlled Assembly, where articles impeachment would require a majority Vote to go to a trial. 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