Nobody is going to self-identify as having slept with Mayor Morse. Most people don't want their sex lives paraded online and in the media.
Also, you have made it clear since the beginning that you want him to be elected, so the only thing that anyone could say that you won't attack is that everything was fine, even in retrospect.
I support Mayor Morse's politics more than those of his opponent, but teachers and mayors aren't supposed to sleep with college students, whether they're gay or not. Also, these are not lapses of judgment from 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. They are contemporary.
Making a letter public would have been the way to elicit responses from people who felt mistreated. The fact is that for someone in authority as a teacher or an elected official to sleep with college students is inapproprate, and he has already said that he did.
He is now permanently associated with this issue, with an ever-growing public record of the controversy, thanks to you and Katie Halper. He could have withdrawn to think about what he did instead of agreeing to be portrayed as a victim who ought to be elected to Congress even though he slept with college students.
It is unfortunate that he didn't understand earlier in his career that he shouldn't use his charisma to sleep around, especially with college students. Misdirecting the personal qualities that are helpful in getting elected can be an occupational hazard. He might have known that if he hadn't run for major office at such a young age. He didn't know, or he didn't care, and the example should not be set that sleeping with college students is acceptable behavior for teachers or elected officials.
