Craig Spence, the former lobbyist linked to a homosexual prostitution service who was found dead in a Boston hotel room Friday, sent a taped farewell message to friends and left a suicide note scrawled on a mirror, according to published reports.
"Chief, consider this my resignation, effective immediately," read the message written in black felt-tip marker on a mirror of his room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, according to a story published in Monday's editions of The Washington Times. "As you always said, you can't ask others to make a sacrifice if you're not ready to do the same. Life is Duty. God bless America."As a postscript, Spence wrote, "To the Ritz, please forgive this inconvenience," The Times reported.
The Washington Post reported that it had obtained a copy of the seven-minute "video postcard" Spence had sent to about a dozen friends.
"Take heart, good friends," Spence said in the video. "The pressures on us over the past several years have been, let us say, significant."