Tone-deaf Ricardo Lara and his critics

During his first months as the state’s elected insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara was rocked by disclosures that he had accepted more than $50,000 in campaign contributions from insurance industry sources after pledging to shun such dealings during his campaign.
It was not exactly a scandal, since there’s nothing illegal about receiving campaign funds from those Lara regulates, as long as he doesn’t make any quid pro quo actions or promises in return.
It was, however, unseeml