Spitzer’s Roadmap to Redemption
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 9th, 2010 4:41 am by HL
Spitzer’s Roadmap to Redemption
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s (D) “swift return to the bully pulpit may say as much about us — a scandal-fatigued public’s diminishing expectations of its officials — as it does about Mr. Spitzer’s restless inability to stay gone. And though he professes not to have a specific strategy of image rehabilitation in mind, whatever he is doing may be working,” the New York Times reports.
CBS News analyst Jeff Greenfield notes what distinguishes the former governor’s scandal from the more recent ones, like those of John Edwards, is that Spitzer “took swift responsibility and did penance.”
Said Greenfield: “This was legitimately a private failure. A serious one, that made him no longer able to be governor. If he were trying to talk about moral rearmament, it would be appropriate to say, ‘Hold it.’ But he is talking about how to prevent another financial meltdown, and he’s in a pretty interesting position to talk about that.”
Will Mahoney Make a Comeback?
The Fort Pierce Tribune says former Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-FL) may challenge Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL), the man who sent him back to the private sector in 2008 after Mahoney admitted to “numerous” affairs several weeks before the election.
Said Mahoney: “Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s not, I don’t know, but the district deserves a race, that I know for sure.”
The Hotline: “Rooney likely owes his seat to Mahoney’s late implosion in ’08. In the weeks before the scandal broke, a GOP poll showed Rooney trailing Mahoney by the high single digits, and the GOPer’s fundraising was lagging. But as the salacious details of Mahoney’s affairs were uncovered, Rooney opened a huge lead, and won an easy 60-40% victory.”
