The die is cast.

This bonehead screwed up, apologized, and is now being dragged further underwater by his constituency.

I'm still waiting for step 2.

If the entire story is put out
The time from election to scandal to resignation and resolution

Then its good plubicilty

If only the scandal part was put out and they leave off the resolution
Then bad plubicity.

Most of the comments you can find seems like this community has been well defined and this has only reconfirmed every idea about it.

I think many here would be shocked to be told that most gamers and even mmo gamers wouldn't of heard of the Mittani or the goons. Hell even some eve players wouldn't know him from Adam. Your all over estimating EVE and the swarm. Outside of EVE they are not as infamous as you seem to believe and it will take a lot more than a few articles tucked away in crappy gamming websites to make a real impact

If you stand back and look at it, it all seems a bit silly. A player elected representative gets drunk, stupidly stands up and jokingly tells a player to go kill himself. Everyone goes up in arms and he appologises but for some it's not enough so they get on their high horse and demand his accounts be shut and some even want him thrown in jail (I think they were joking). Personally I don't know whats the worse part of all this is. The false sense of moral outrage, people trying to make political capital out of it all, the CSM chairman telling someone to kill himself or the fact that someone who has recently been divorced can still afford 27 accounts. TBH I'm rather bewildered by the amount of fuss this has made, but then again I live in the real world.