Valentine's Day in the rear view mirror
On Februaty 14th, a column by then Governor Eliot Spitzer appeared in the Washington Post. The column was Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime, How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers.
I didn't read it.
On March 10th the New York Times broke the sex story that resulted in his resignation on March 17th. I read that, from a kitchen table in Geneva.
The next morning conversing on our way to the office, my friend compared the European reaction to a sex story in politics and the American. I assented to the obvious, but pointed out to my friend that there was something wrong in this ... the wrong unit was involved, and ... there was something wrong in this.
Now I've read Spitzer's column on the misuse of the OCC, and an awful lot of the Friends of W are on the much better off side of the digital credit divide.
h/t Cookie Jill via Avedon
