A less than fond farewell for Kay Rogers

Butler County Auditor Kay Rogers was brief, civil and only partially self-serving in a resignation letter Friday in which she (mostly) assumed responsibility for her part in a fiber optics scandal that sucker-punched her county.

It was nothing like the Rogers I recall from her endorsement interview in the 2006 auditor's race.

Then she was memorably sharp-tongued, sarcastic and indignant, berating her opponent Roger Reynolds and barely entertaining questions about the Dynus Corp. mess in which she helped secure loans for a company that pretended to have a contract with Butler County but didn't.

I guess being forced to acknowledge she accepted $9,500 from the company and pleading guilty to federal charges had something of a wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap effect on Rogers.

"More information will surface in the coming months that may better explain the actions concerning this situation," she writes in her letter.

Let's not hold our breath.

"I regret that I put my trust in some people that have let me down," she continues.

And we regret that she let down the good people of Butler County.