“It is SO tough to pick one,” moaned a voter torn between Pruitt and Zinke.

Both men seem to have a particular obsession with flying in style. Pruitt’s round-the-clock security detail has conveniently decided that it’s dangerous for him to sit in coach. Their concern for the dangers he might encounter crammed in with the rank-and-file was so intense that Pruitt felt compelled to spend $1,641 of public money to sit up front on an exhausting one-hour flight from Washington to New York.

What is it with these people and travel?

You’ll remember at one point Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin tried to get a government plane for his honeymoon. The first head of Health and Human Services was canned because of his penchant for high-end transport. But Pruitt, unfazed, is still being spotted in first-class seating.

We the taxpayers paid for a $36,000 military flight to get Pruitt from Cincinnati to New York on one occasion when he felt particularly pressed for time. The trip was to promote infrastructure improvements, and the money the government spent just getting Pruitt out of Ohio could have paid for paving cracks in approximately 110 square miles of road.

Pruitt needs special seating, the E.P.A. claims, because other travelers have begun to verbally assault him in the airports. On the one side we have a guy accompanied by guards, in an enclosed space inhabited only by people who have walked through metal detectors. On the other side there’s the danger of being yelled at by an environmentalist. Obviously, no price for protection is too high.

Zinke, whose department is considering a plan to more than double the entrance fee to the Grand Canyon, spent $6,250 to helicopter back from a meeting in Virginia so he could make a date to go horseback riding with Mike Pence. A staff member explained that the expense was well worthwhile since it enabled Zinke “to familiarize himself with the in-flight capabilities of an aircraft he is in charge of.”

We would like to tell you more, but the inspector general assigned to investigate Zinke’s possible travel transgressions says her report has been delayed by “incomplete documentation.” While we’re waiting, you will know whether he’s on the move because every day the secretary is in his office a security (!!) aide goes up on the roof and raises a special Secretary of the Interior flag, featuring a buffalo and some stars.

“Does our vote mean the winner goes away?” asked one reader plaintively. Sorry, no. But top finishers will get a special gold-embossed frequent flier card.