(CNN) -- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo went into hiding last week, canceling appearances and perhaps hoping that a blast of sharply negative press coverage -- triggered by a hard-hitting front-page New York Times story -- will somehow fade away. That was wishful thinking: The bad press isn't going to vanish anytime soon. Cuomo faces a crater-sized pothole in the road between the governor's office at the state capital in Albany and the much more important, oval-shaped one in Washington that he dreams of someday occupying. And he has nobody to blame but himself. The Times published a trove of e-mails and interviews that show top Cuomo aides actively interfered with a high-level anti-corruption investigative panel -- in ways that benefited big-money donors to Cuomo -- even after Cuomo personally and repeatedly vowed the commission would be independent.
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The Times found N.Y. Gov. Cuomo's aides interfered with anti-corruption panel
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Errol Louis: Cuomo ran on anti-corruption platform, but created this scandal himself
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Louis: He has been ducking the press, but he will have to address this head on
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Louis: N.J.'s Christie handled his Bridgegate scandal with press conference, firings, probe
Unlike @placeholder's duck-and-cover strategy, Christie summarily sacked several close advisers, held a marathon news conference at which he answered dozens of questions, and hired a law firm to investigate his own conduct (an inquiry that, not surprisingly, cleared Christie).