If only mayors could marry! If only women could be mayors!

Mark Shea is on hiatus, so I'm borrowing his phrase for this. I half expected the media to refer to Hizzonner as "Father West."

Update: My boss, no amateur in the news business, just pointed out to me that the Spokesman-Review was the paper that broke the story. That's hardly surprising, since it's the local daily. But what's interesting is that the Spokesman is owned by the Cowles family, which has had a long-running, acrimonious feud with the city over a downtown parking garage. The paper ran an "Editor's Note" about how the story came to be, but oddly enough, there's no mention of the Cowles' interest in seeing West's career destroyed. Go figure.

Journalism is a dirty business sometimes.