That's how Mayor Rocky Anderson should respond to calls from his political enemies for an investigation into the finances of his trip to Turin, Italy, in July. The mayor led a delegation to the site of the 2006 Winter Olympics to deliver a good-will message from Salt Lake City, which hosted the 2002 Games. It's an Olympic tradition.

Some have charged, however, that the mayor used city funds to take his friends on the trip, or at least may have mingled city money and donor money. James Evans, the Salt Lake County Republican chairman, has demanded that District Attorney David Yocom launch a criminal investigation.

Anderson denies that any taxpayer funds were used to pay the expenses of the members of his traveling party. He says that city funds and donations were not mingled. He has released the names of the donors and how much they contributed.

The city's finance director and attorney back up the mayor.

This looks to us like it's more about politics than mismanagement of taxpayer funds. Evans sees a parallel with Yocom's investigation of former Salt Lake County Mayor Nancy Workman, who was acquitted this year of charges she improperly used county funds to hire bookkeepers to work for her daughter at a private charity.

Evans says that if Yocom does not pursue Anderson with the same vinegar as he did Workman, there is a double standard.

However, because the city's finance director says that donations covered the expenses of Anderson's trip, we don't see the parallel.

Because concern for the environment was part of the message of the trip, legs of the journey in the United States and Europe were traveled by bicycle. The other members of the mayor's traveling party in Europe included the mayor's girlfriend; Deputy Mayor Rocky Fluhart and his wife; two bicycle racers who are Anderson's friends, and Sarah Wright, executive director of Utah Clean Energy.

Everyone but Anderson personally paid for their flights. Private donations covered the mayor's.

Members of the City Council have questioned how the mayor chose the other travelers and whether the mayor's girlfriend's other expenses could be covered even by donated funds, which under city rules, must be treated like public money.

This is hairsplitting. The mayor, the City Council and the D.A. should have more important things to do.

But if a D.A.'s investigation can clear the air, bring it on.