Green v. State

Prologue

The continued existence of an elected official as an elected official depends not only upon his ability to “resist the temptations that daily beset him,” but also upon his ability to make it apparent that he has resisted them. Few, if any, elected officials have survived a long political life without some impugning of their motives. This, the public figure must be content to bear, 1 or alternatively, his defense can be to open himself to the "rigid scrutiny-of those who hold him suspect. Indeed the temper nf the times compels one to endure 'even the proddings -of .the curious. 2 For a…