Her agreement with the state Campaign Spending Commission ends her troubles with that body. She will pay $40,000 in fines.

That agreement is probably about as good a deal as the commission could have made, but its a shame the commission felt it had to let Mansho use campaign funds to pay much of the fine.

Still, the the larger issue is whether there should be further investigation by someone — either state or city prosecutors and/or the City Ethics Commission:

• Was it kosher by city rules to use campaign dollars for official travel and then personally pocket the city reimbursement payments?

• Mansho acknowledges she used an estimated $93,000 or more of official city staff time for campaign-related work. She says all this was not a "willful" violation of the campaign spending law. But was it a violation, willful or not, of other city ethics laws?

• Mansho agreed that her campaign organized an "Aloha" scholarship golf tournament in 1999 that raised $21,750 but generated only $6,500 in scholarships for schools and organizations "directly associated with Mansho." Where is the rest of the money?