Potential Spitzer Exit Could Impact Reforms

Gov. Eliot Spitzer remained sequestered in his Fifth Avenue apartment and behind police barricades in New York City Tuesday, while Republicans in Albany threatened impeachment over reports that he spent up to $80,000 as a perennial customer of the Emperors Club VIP, a high-dollar prostitution ring at the center of a federal conspiracy and money-laundering case.But his potential resignation – and its impact on the sweeping workers' compensation reforms he engineered in 2007 – threatens to stall some final stages of the reform package and diminish or end debate over American Medi...