Sex Scandal Let Down

There I was, getting excited at the prospect of an honest to goodness sex scandal. As usual, just below the surface, is the real story of corruption. The case of Michigan attorney general Mike Cox and protagonist, Geoffrey Fieger is not about an errant fling but campaign spending irregularities.
Fieger, apparently Michigan's best-known attorney, “allegedly covertly and illegally funded a campaign to defeat a Republican-backed state Supreme Court candidate in 2004.”
That a scoundrel would use the sex scandal in an attempt to avoid justice shows just how shallow we voters are considered by the body politics. There is nothing new in the approach, except perhaps a growing awareness of the ploy.
That voters can still be duped into using the information as a basis for political choice is more of a worry. The only people with any real right to be concerned, or otherwise, are Mrs Cox and the offspring.
For all that I enjoy the search for a real, honest to goodness sex scandal, I know that they are as likely as rocking horse shit.
We have said before, in this blog, look for the corruption under the sex scandal. It is there, somewhere, every time.
Fieger is, it seems, fearful of facing prosecution over campaign funding irregularities in 2004. He says the campaign-finance violations under investigation by the Attorney General's Office are like those routinely committed by political candidates and rarely result in prosecution.
Cox says Fieger, through a surrogate, threatened to expose an extramarital affair Cox had if he didn't drop a criminal campaign-finance investigation against Fieger.
Lee Michael O'Brien, the lawyer said to have played a role in an extortion attempt involving the state attorney general, has a shady reputation to uphold. Fieger and his attorneys are ready to hang him out to dry. They said if O'Brien made threats, he acted on his own.
We will be watching with fascination as this drama plays out, alas, without the sex.