If any California politician must be above reproach, it's the secretary of state, who runs state elections. But Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, who has a reputation of clean politicking, has gotten himself into an ethical scandal. "A San Francisco nonprofit group paid $108,000 from a state grant to two individuals and two companies who then made donations of nearly identical amounts to Kevin Shelley's successful 2002 campaign for California secretary of state," the San Francisco Chronicle, his home-town newspaper, reported on Sunday. "The money came from a $500,000 taxpayer-financed grant that Shelley himself arranged in 2000 when he was...