Have you ever seen people fight so fiercely to keep an unpaid volunteer position?

Have you ever seen such enabling of blatant wrong doing?

What qualifies as a misappropriation of public funds?

This relies on a quiet hope: that things get forgotten. That records are not maintained. That people eventually move on.

That private meetings and broken trust stay buried.

Numbers, however, possess a cold, unforgiving memory.

What was spent remains spent. What was signed remains signed. There is no expectation of privacy in today's world.

What was quietly decided leaves an undeniable trail.

Eventually, someone follows it.