After Watergate, there was...

...a succession of scandals with the suffix, "-gate": Irangate, Troopergate, Travelgate, Monicagate and now Bridgegate. (A full list can be found here.)

An article in the Times this morning mentions a former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee by the name of Lawrence E. Bathgate II, above left.

I don't know why, but something tells me this guy is bad luck.