If the scandal is true, it almost certainly means that during the campaign Edwards presided over an elaborate coverup involving at least a) having an aide wrongly claim paternity and b) having other aides go out and lie to reporters. It probably also included payments of money to cooperating parties and various familiar slurs on the character of the ‘other woman,’ Rielle Hunter. All this would obviously be germane to Edwards’ fitness to hold any office, including clerk at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Even if Edwards were to forswear all future public employment, there’d be an interest in documenting and publicizing his role in the coverup for the same reason we track down bank robbers 10 years after the crime–to deter others from pulling the same stunt in the future.