Last week I posted a couple of notes about acquaintances of mine chucking their lives and their fortunes down the toilet due to greed. The week ended on the same miserable note when an elected official in my city, a man with an excellent reputation among those who saw only his public persona, was revealed to have a dark side. How dark? We are talking about allegations of child molestation against his own adopted children. We are talking about court orders to stay away from the children. We are talking about divorce.
He resigned from office, then went home and committed suicide.
There are times when a word like "shock" is inadequate. The man should be remembered for the good that he did as a city councilman and in other public capacities. I've worked with a great many elected officials and I'd rank him up there with the best. The sad reality was captured by Shakespeare about 400 years ago: The evil men do lives after them but the good is oft interred with their bones.
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