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e there. But what could be done? We needed to make sure that the
morale of the troops remained high, since we were already facing
another enormous challenge, the worst financial crisis in our lifetime.
With many of our important supporters on the ropes, we really could
have used Eliot’s promised support.
You can surely see that it wasn’t a good time for this head fake from
Eliot. But I also had to face up to the question, what was my
responsibility in this? Maybe it was that I’d been complacent and had
over-estimated my quote “friendship” with Eliot and was now paying
the price for that. I had certainly been proud, obviously overly so of the
fact that I’d been able to line up, “my good friend the Governor.” Hey
check me out. Aren’t I important?
To be truthful, when I received the note, I was at least as disappointed
that it did not come from Eliot himself, as the fact that he wasn’t coming.
Wow, I thought at the time. he doesn’t even give me a call, or write the
note himself! I guess that shows where I rank on his totem pole!
Of course, that was my private lament. Publicly, the important work of
making sure the event was successful quickly took precedence and nose
went to the grindstone. Thankfully, by this time in the life of the
organization, Hedge Funds Care had strong leadership beyond me and
many highly committed individuals who threw themselves into the fray.
Somehow, we held it together and survived.
I can’t say the same for Eliot.
On March 10, 2008 it was revealed in the New York Times that Eliot had
been caught through wire taps, arranging to spend the night of February
13 – yes – the night of our gala, with a high-priced prostitute at a
Washington, DC, hotel. Further, that because he had paid for her to
travel across state lines, the charges could be very serious. The