The word from on high

— Mark Wilcox is departing as the state’s land commissioner at the end of this term, thank goodness. It can’t be too soon to suit some of us. At last report, he himself may not have been heard from on the subject of whether he’ll get around to paying the taxes on his personal use of not one but two state vehicles, but his spokesman has been. (The hoi polloi may have to speak for themselves, but our political elite have state employees to do that for them.) According to his spokes flack, Mr. Wilcox will abide by IRSrules and regulations. Gosh, just the way the rest of us are expected to do. Surely that means he’ll be paying all those back taxes, too. If a public official is going to clean up his act, he ought to clean it all up.

An aide for the land commissioner who made the mistake of answering the press’ questions about Mr. Wilcox’s two-car fleet of state vehicles found himself an ex-aide after the election. He took the fall for his boss’ political fall, having committed a firing offense in that office: telling the simple truth.

Editorial, Pages 12 on 07/20/2010

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