It is not often one sees somebody walking with grace, but I would like to personally highlight the recent actions of David Francis. Francis is the outgoing tax collector for Haywood County. He was defeated by a dark-horse candidate, with, to be polite, far less experience. Francis has agreed to stay on and help his defeater learn the ropes, and he’ll be picking up other responsibilities until the new guy is up-to-speed. According to all reports, Francis has been guilty of no eye-rolling throughout the strange sequence of events.