For too many of us, politics has become a nasty four-letter word, leaving an even nastier taste in our mouths after another round of arguing with friends and families about the virtues and non-virtues of public servants we’ve voted in office.
 Scandal seems to have become the “norm” as we read and watch about the latest elected official who has overstepped his bounds in that position, and who has soiled even further the decay of what we used to hold as a model of decorum and respect.