No Country for Young Governors

As we wait here for the returns to come in from Mississippi, it occurred to me that while I love living in New York City we’ve had sort of a rough time with the governors lately. There are some pretty obvious differences between the blowout of NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey’s career and our Gov. Spitzer’s. But through all the differences of money or no money and differing sexual orientations, there’s also a pretty strong similarity. New Democratic governors brought in after a long period of Republican rule rapidly brought down by wildly reckless sexual behavior. All we need now is some Connecticut governor to get tripped up and we’ll have the local trifecta. But then it occurred to me, what am I thinking: Connecticut Gov. John Rowland was forced to resign and was then thrown in the slammer just back in 2005. Admittedly his weaknesses were for luxury rather than carnality. But still three gubernatorial takedowns in four short years is a rough record for our area.