It’s always exciting when major sex scandals elsewhere turn out to have local connections. If you somehow haven’t been inundated with the news already for the past couple of hours, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has publicly apologized after having been caught on a federal wiretap arranging for a prostitute to meet him in a hotel room. Turns out, the hotel room in question was right here in D.C., though it’s unclear which hotel that might have been. Spitzer stayed at the historic Renaissance Mayflower Hotel on Connecticut Ave. on Feb. 13, the night in question, but hotel records show the room number the prostitute allegedly visited was registered under a different name that night.

Spitzer is fessing up, nonetheless:

I have acted in a way that violated the obligations to my family and that violates my — or any — sense of right and wrong. I apologize first, and most importantly, to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better. I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas, the public good and doing what is best for the State of New York. But I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard that I expect of myself. I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family.

The governor refused to take any questions from the press after his statement, and his political future is still in question. Gothamist is following the blow-by-blow. Interestingly, it appears as though Spitzer actually arranged for his hooker to travel from New York to D.C. for their rendezvous. What’s up with that, Governor? Our D.C. prostitutes aren’t good enough for you?