We may never get to the bottom of what I am now calling Leopoldgate. The only people who really know what happened are Leopold and his friend or friends in the backseat, and the cops who said "unfounded." Perhaps the guy from Nordstrom will come forward--hey pal, call me! I'll take down your story.
The thing about our county executive that has always made me wonder is why did he as a young transplant to Hawaii who became a state senator and then ran for governor suddenly leave the Aloha State many years ago? That was of course before he set up shop in Annapolis where he has also come to be known as an Abe Lincoln admirer and impersonator. That's Honest Abe to the rest of us, the very man whose 200th birthday we now celebrate. Now the state's leading Republican elected official, whose name came up when we spoke of a future governor, may now be tainted like "Mudd", the man who treated John Wilkes Booth's broken leg as he fled from Ford's Theater into Virginia. (Mudd got life in prison. Booth was killed by Union soldiers. Lincoln...well he now belongs to the ages...and Leopold...well, he impersonates Lincoln, as proof that he now belongs to the ages...)
And while I just hate to give more free publicity and drive readers to the local paper, I think that columnist Eric Hartley has pretty well summed up the current state of Leopoldgate. Read it at Leopoldgate .
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Hartley is dead on. There is so much more to this. If this blows over, he can count himself lucky.
Although I did think it was presumptuous of Hartley to assume that the "other person" was singular and female! One never knows!
There appears to be "so much more to this" but who knows? Do you?
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