In Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin’s “Yeas and Nays” column, New York governor David Paterson brings us all down a level:
“Our public officials are just like the rest of us” in terms of their fallibility, he added, “but when we run for public office, we pretend” otherwise.
Patronizing prostitutes? Unethically bullying corporate CEOs?
Oh yeah. Just like the rest of us. We’ve all been there.
