For all the stories about your elected officials taking bribes, scoring free World Series tickets and getting convicted for assaulting a photographer, here's a tale of a lame-duck lawmaker who waited in line, with the masses, for an hour to get an autograph.

Recall the minor dustup in June when state Sen. Craig Johnson (D-Port Washington) replied to a Tweet from ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons's suggestion of who would make the worst theoretical sex tape combo. Johnson proposed Susan Boyle and Abe Vigoda. His GOP opponent, Mineola Mayor Jack Martins, pounced on Johnson for the comment in a longwinded huff-and-puff of a press release.

Simmons artfully responded to the situation by calling Johnson "my new favorite senator." Johnson, whose defeat to Martins was certified Saturday, probably now wishes Simmons campaigned with him at a couple of LIRR stops.

Anyway, Simmons was at the Madison Square Garden Borders bookstore Tuesday night to sign copies of the newly-released paperback version of his bestseller, The Book of Basketball. Johnson came down after the day's OTB-killing session in Albany and waited in line, for an hour, to get his copy signed.

"When I introduced myself to him, he totally remembered the sex tape tweet and then said he was impressed that I waited in line for over hour to meet him," Johnson told us. "I think he thought that I would have somehow told folks at Borders that I was a senator to get moved up in line. Thus the thanks for waiting in line comment."

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