What makes you think the problem is about elected or appointed officials? This is the profound error made too frequently.

It's a lack of holiness and happy struggle in family life in the first place that kicks the can down the street for a food fight among elected and appointed. 

From "Bright and Cheerful Homes" written by Father Urteaga:

"We need homes like that of Lazarus and Mary, like the home of the parents of James and John. The more Christian your home is, the more similar it will be to the home at Nazareth, our model in everything. Study it. Contemplate it. Pray about that dwelling which housed that blessed family. Watch its inhabitants. Learn from them. Try to imitate them, asking yourself in every moment: Is this the way St. Joseph would have acted? How would our Lady do the things I'm doing? The more parents resemble St. Joseph and the blessed virgin, the more their children will resemble Jesus the child."