Editorial: Governor should reform license fee office patronage

An investigation may have said Governor Matt Blunt and his aides did nothing illegal in connection with the awarding of lucrative license fee offices to political contributors, but that doesn't make it right.
That's the message delivered in an editorial in today's Kansas City Star:

The ability to contribute generously to political campaigns doesn't necessarily qualify someone to run a license bureau well. In Missouri, though, check-writing prowess has long been the main qualification for obtaining a contract to run one of the offices where citizens obtain driver's licenses, vehicle tags and registrations.

One of the biggest problems in today's politics, on both sides of the aisle, are the people who look for loopholes and what is legal and illegal, instead of looking at something and determining if it is right or if it is wrong.