Oh, Wyndham. It was so adorable to watch you run for Dane County Board of Supervisors in April 2008. Your campaign was like watching a 10-year-old try out for “American Inventor” and being patted-on-the-back by George Foreman. (“I love the manure digesters you drew, little man! Thanks for coming all the way to Los Angeles!”) You insisted at first you were running as a joke. We believed you.

But then gradually, as it became clear Conor O’Hagan’s campaign was the political equivalent of “Norbit” taking out Oscar ads in the Hollywood trade papers, the unthinkable became very possible. The joke stopped. We did the best we could to convince students in District 5 that someone — anyone — would be better than you and O’Hagan.

But the next thing we knew, you won that election in a landslide, and County Supervisor Manning it was. Rofl-copter! Have you sold The Wonderful World of Disney the rights to your story yet?

Truth is, we always secretly preferred you to O’Hagan, in the same way people on “Fear Factor” “prefer” to eat cow brains instead of pig intestines. (They’re less acidic, and they don’t suggest wading into Lake Mendota to pick up garbage.) And we liked the fact that you showed up to your debate against O’Hagan dressed like a politician, instead of a high school junior who just raided out the clearance rack at American Eagle. You were the lesser of two evils in the most precise sense of the phrase.

And so we were very cautiously optimistic about your political career when it began, considering the alternative. But right now there’s only one question. Where have you been all our lives, pal? We saw you at a panel on “hipster culture” at the Union, but what else have you been doing — oh, you know — about that political office you were elected to?

Since taking office you have not held office hours, despite the tacit responsibility of all elected county officials to make themselves available to constituents. You have secured no policy victories for students, despite promising to do so.

Last fall you were one of only six supervisors to vote against the allocation of $250,000 for hiring five new sheriff’s deputies, believing the public should be punished for Sheriff Dave Mahoney’s possibly overzealous enforcement of immigration law. Good one. We’d say how disturbing it is to watch a politician alienate all sides of an issue in one fell swoop — but then we’d have to call you a politician.

Early this semester you bizarrely attempted to take credit for Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk’s improvements to the 911 Center following Brittany Zimmermann’s homicide.

Even your solid proposal for a secondary school arts initiative has fallen through. We must conclude that your one serious independent idea was, like all the others, just talk. Today a little 8-year-old girl came into the Herald office crying, asking when she would be able to draw and sing and paint like Wyndham promised. “We don’t know,” we told her. “Probably never. Go home and watch television for the rest of the night.”

This is, of course, all in good fun. But you deserve it. Lots of people deserve a lot of criticism, including us. And some people just don’t belong in public office. (Last time we checked, though, the WUD Music Committee is short a few people — they’d be glad to have you back.)

There’s a chance, though, that you’ll at least be successful at helping obtain manure digesters for the county. Manure digesters are indeed an important tool for cleaning up the environment. But a more difficult act of clean-up awaits: when the Board of Supervisors, whose prestige and public trust you have seriously undermined, has to clean up after a political career that should never have begun, but which will — mercifully — be over soon.