GOVERNOR-9

It's been very hard not to think about the newly resigned Governor-9 all the time this week! At least that's how it's been for me and just about everyone I've been talking with on Long Island since his shit hit the fan on Monday afternoon! Still, I have a feeling that Spitzermania doesn't go very far beyond New York Staters past and present. Like, does anyone without a NY connection care in Austin?

I think I'd feel more sympathetic to Governor-9 if he'd been a better governor. After cruising into office with a record-setting margin of victory, all he had to do to leave behind a great legacy was build momentum for those positive changes he still yammers about. Instead he took a stupendous nose-dive largely brought on by his own behavior. I just don't know what made him act like such a maniac, though I have some suspicions.

Incidentally, The New York Times broke the news of this Democratic scandal not long after airing rumors about John McCain's close relationship with a lobbyist.

There's been a mini-industry of commentary about Mrs. Governor-9, but I wonder how much of it is informed. She and Mr. Governor-9 seem to be keeping to themselves a lot lately. I mention this because I don't think I've heard much acknowledging what "we" don't know about her (and the marriage), which I think is plenty.

Charlie Rose hosted a very interesting and fairly comprehensive (albeit all-male) pre-resignation discussion that's available here. Here are late night videos, courtesy of Gothamist.

And then there's "Kristen," an aspiring singer who claims to have lived in Austin for a time (so there's a connection!) and whose MySpace page includes this worrisome autobiographical nugget—

When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I’ve never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. Left an older brother who had already split. Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again. Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own.

—and whose mother has been quoted as calling her daughter "a very bright girl who can handle someone like the governor." For the money he paid, I would hope so!

Anyway, I understand that "Kristen" (advertised here?) grew up in New Jersey, where she was carefully trained to engineer the complete and utter collapse of rival state New York. She's also a singer with a single—"What We Want"—that is a lot like "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses mashed up with...Britney Spears?

Here's "I Know What Boys Like."



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