It appears that, in his quest for political rehabilitation,  Elliot Spitzer has sublimated his obsession for hookers with an obsession for history, going back nearly eighteen years to dig up some 'dirt' on his opponent, Mr. Stringer.  The dirt? Mr. Spitzer implies that because Mr. Springer voted all those years ago not to discorporate a spin-off corporation of ours called Zymurgy he supports NAMBLA.

Now most of us are not New Yorkers, nor do we care in the slightest about the race for city comptroller. But it seems to us that if Mr.Spitzer's campaign has to spread misinformation about events that happened so long ago, he is growing desperate.

Let's clear something up - Zymurgy was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization, but this is NOT the same as a tax exempt organization. It was never envisioned to be, and never attempted to be tax exempt. It was created as a spin-off organization to make it easier for us to sell scholarly books and tapes. We made some mistakes along the way (as small, all-volunteer groups sometimes do) but there was nothing nefarious nor illegal about what we did and why we did it. This was borne out by the fact  that the New York legislature voted Zymurgy out of existence because there was nothing they could take us to court for.

It is abundantly clear that Mr. Spitzer is trying to use this to deflect criticism regarding his hypocritical breach of his professed moral standards, but reaching back to something that happened during the Clinton era hardly seems relevant to the issues of today's NYC race except to demonstrate his continuing lack of character.