[William McKinley]

Let's say you are involved in your county's party. You decide to run for office. You are elected, thanks to the help and advice of someone else in your county's party. You worked well with him.

You serve, and then run for a higher office. Since you worked well with him and found him trustworthy, you use him again.

You have no idea that he writes for some fringe group. Why would you? You never had any reason to suspect.

Should you have known? I am skeptical. I could very easily see how he wouldn't have known.

So the guy says something stupid, some of his views come out. McClintock distances himself from those views. Maybe he should have fired the guy. I don't know. But I sure don't see what Chancellor is trying to paint.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

And I'd bet dollars to donuts that Stoos is still doing his same job, and hasn't been fired.

[Poohbah]

The last thing I would want, particularly if I'm in a higher office than before and thinking of going higher (such as having run TWICE for statewide office already) is to walk into an ambush because of not asking.

I would, long before it had a chance to become an issue, make sure that (a) I knew who ALL of my close advisors and assistants hung around with, and (b) that any article that they DID seek to publish went past my desk before going to the journal in question.