Yeah, he tried to clean up Albany, which has been horribly corrupt (in a bipartisan way) for years, and my guess is, they hit back hard. This was stupid of him, obviously, but not too bad compared to what Joe Bruno and Sheldon Silver have been up to since like the 70s. If Mike Bloomberg went after them, billions of dollars notwithstanding, you'd find out he was gay in mere minutes (whoops, did I type that out loud)?