What you’re implying is essentially the position of the folks in EY that don’t take a penny from the Govt. After all, its tainted money, and by extension, that taints everything it touches.
Personally, I have no problem with that whatsoever. I may not want XYZ as my kid’s schoolbus driver, and certainly not as a son-in-law, but do I really care if the governor or mayor or president has a lifestyle that runs counter mine? Not really.
Because when you really get down to the nuts and bolts of it, toevah is not that much different than eating chometz on pesach? Yet we don’t go running and screaming when a candidiate does that.
So (IMHO) its less to do with kovod hatorah, and more to do with social confort. I tell myself and my family, we are us (frum, bnei torah) and they are not. So it matter not one wit what the candidate does on his personal time, or who he associates with (unless its fringe nuts that pose a threat to my safety, like neo-nazis, which is not the case here).
Will this person run a good govt? Give him the job. Period. I don’t have to advertise who I voted for, and I certainly don’t need to hold press conferences. Let me hear what the positions are in the issues that matter to the city, and I’ll make a choice.