Every day seems to bring a fresh revelation about D.C.’s new talented Mr. Ripley, George Santos. But for me, as a former New York Post reporter, the most shocking element is that none of this came out before the election, especially given the fact that his Democratic opponent was Robert Zimmerman, who had hired the powerful consultancy SKDK to run his campaign. Zimmerman is not some bright-eyed, political neophyte. He’s a political animal who knows the game as well as anybody, and certainly had the phone number of every News12, Newsday, Daily News and New York Post reporter to place such juicy allegations. He was a talking head on TV, a D.N.C. member, and a former political aide and appointee, who worked for two congressmen on Capitol Hill, in the New York State legislature, and later as an appointee in the Mario Cuomo administration. He moved on to hang his own shingle—a marketing and P.R. firm called ZE Creative Communications.