A little sin can still get you elected

This morning's Star Tribune in an endorsement editorial wrote that the endorsed candidate "has a history of carelessness that is more than personal peccadillo." It was this last word that intrigued me. I've heard of it before, but would be stretched to give you an exact definition. So at coffee, this morning, I asked the two local retired professors. "Why of course we know that word, it means when somebody fools around a little, as in adultery." My curiosity still not satisfied, I needed to find out what the Spanish word pecado meant. It means sin. Peccadillo is the diminutive. Merriam Webster defines it as a slight offense.

Would either of our Otter Tail County District 2 Commissioner candidates Everett P. Erickson or Mary Ryan care to 'fess up to any peccadilloes prior to the election?