Does being a "Career Administrator" help or hurt a candidate for governor?

Is there or is there not a such thing as; guilty knowledge?

knowledge of public corruption and or incompetence and choosing to ignore such out of personal and or political considerations. 

Doesn't there have to be guilty knowledge in career administration in government?  Aren't they synonymous in government in New Mexico.  How can one who has spent a lifetime in government not have guilty knowledge unless they remained willfully ignorant of the of manifest public corruption and incompetence around them in every level of government?

Should politicians, public servants and candidates for those positions,

• not lie, 
• not steal, 
• not cheat, nor 
• tolerate among them, anyone who does?

Can we concede at least that the candidates with the most guilty knowledge are the least desirable ones?