‘The details uncovered by the New York Post,” a clearly steamed Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Monday, “are profoundly distressing.”
Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver found the report, by Post State Editor Fredric U. Dicker, “troubling.” Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno warned of potential harm to business. And Gov. Spritzer (er, Spitzer) ordered steps to fix the problem.
What’s got them all in such a lather?
As Dicker reported, the fabled “natural mineral spring baths” of Saratoga Spa State Park have been mixed with plain old Saratoga Springs city tap water. The state, it seems, has been diluting (er, deluding) the public for years.
OK, put the kidding aside. Obviously, no one should be defrauded – particularly by state government. Officials adulterated the water and then took money from people who thought it was pure.
What “chutz-spa.” There’s no excuse.
But we have a question.
Bruno notes that “for well over a century, people have come from all over . . . to experience unique, health-giving properties of the Saratoga mineral baths.”
And yet the false advertising seems to have been going on for some time.
So: Just how many bathers immersed themselves in the spring/tap-water cocktail – and still came away feeling their health had improved?
No doubt, more than a few.
Were they brain-washed?