How A Candidate Can Survive Indecent Exposure

A Maryland Mayor’s Experience Shows the Virtues of What Weiner Doesn’t Have: A Record of Delivering For Citizens

The sexting scandal of New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner may seem new, if only because of the technology. But it reminded me of the old adage “What’s old is new again.” I knew another mayoral candidate, with a similar problem, in a very different place.

Two decades ago, I was a reporter for The Baltimore Sun when I met Spencer Schlosnagle. A lanky, amiable young man of 30, Schlosnagle was in the midst of a re-election campaign for mayor of Friendsville, a small town along the north-flowing Youghiogheny River in …