$15,000 Isn't Enough To Save Monserrate

Campaign finance reports have shown that Senator (ugh) Hiram Monserrate has spent $15,000 with a reputation management firm. It took him a while to file the reports (which aren't finished either), possibly to let this nugget of information slip out a little later, once the spotlight was off of him a bit more.

From PolitickerNY:

ALBANY—State Senator Hiram Monserrate brought his elections filings up to date, and records show he paid $15,000 to a reputation management firm two weeks after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend.

Monserrate's January filings show his campaign committee paid $15,000 to Dolce Goldin, the home firm of former Inside City Hall host Davidson Goldin.

"Like most elected officials, I receive, from time to time, advice from media consultants," Monserrate said when asked if the payment was for services rendered related to the alleged assault. (Monserrate has pleaded not guilty and his accuser has publicly changed her story.) "It's all part of what we do, and that's what I contracted them for.

Paying a reputation management firm to do what? I thought being found innocent of those (alleged) crimes was supposed to be good enough. Perhaps he was having so much trouble keeping his stories straight, that he hired someone to do it for him with the ability to try and make it seem plausible.