Let Bygones Be Bygones

Liz, you are better than this.You should adopt the philosophy of the great muckraking journalist, I.F. Stone.  Stone had a policy of never socializing with the politicians and powerbrokers he covered.  

Here’s great quote from Stone:

“It’s just wonderful to be a pariah. I really owe my success to being a
pariah. It is so good not to be invited to respectable dinner parties.
People used to say to me, ‘Izzy, why don’t you go down and see the
Secretary of State and put him straight.’ Well, you know, you’re not
supposed to see the Secretary of State. He won’t pay any attention to
you anyway. He’ll hold your hand, he’ll commit you morally for
listening. To be a pariah is to be left alone to see things your own
way, as truthfully as you can. Not because you’re brighter than anybody
else is — or your own truth so valuable. But because, like a painter or
a writer or an artist, all you have to contribute is the purification
of your own vision, and add that to the sum total of other visions. To
be regarded as nonrespectable, to be a pariah, to be an outsider, this
is really the way to do it. To sit in your tub and not want anything. As
soon as you want something, they’ve got you!”