The smartest man in the room

We of the empire state elected a Governor who proclaimed himself as the smartest man in the room when he went to his first governor's conference or at lest I've been told. I have no doubt that he's Mensa material of which I'm not. I don't think I would have unprotected sex with a prostitute. Every teenage boy is taught not to have unprotected sex, and those who have unprotected sex are looked down as dolts, or being pretty dumb. Here was a top notch prosecutor who got caught up in money laundering to pay for his unprotected sex bring a women across state lines for sex violating the Mann act. Ah yes he was the smartest man in the room. He was the brilliant man who brought David Paterson in as lieutenant governor. Now I've been told by several people who met him that he was very smart. That was before he became governor. Here is a man who when faced with a fiscal crises believes that getting the OK from the union's to give there OK for a tier five ( this is something that anybody who has any knowledge of the state constitution knows that pension and pension reforms are non negotiable)in exchange he'll give $20'000 for people to leave state service. the people who took him up on the deal were going to leave state service in 12 month anyway, or so I've been told.
What happened to the state that had at one time the greatest forward looking governors, Clinton, Cleveland, the two Roosevelt's, Dewey , and Rockefeller. All you can do is look to the heavens and wounder.