Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Although it’s like getting Al Capone on tax evasion – his other crimes are much worse but at least he got got.
St. Louis had our own version of Eliot, without all the other baggage. George Peach was a prosecuting attorney who by day crusaded against the porno business and by night was in bed with them. Yeah, he too was a Democrat. Mr. Peach was like Gary Hart – he all but dared the local newspaper to investigate him. As I’m not a psychiatrist and don’t actually know the people, you wonder is the dare from a desire to get caught so they can stop or just arrogance.
Oh well, one can hope that New York gets a better, less self-aggrandizing governor out of the resignation.
