A recent leukemia diagnosis has forced Hays County’s top elected official to temporarily step off of the dais in order to begin treatment.

Hays County Judge Bert Cobb announced at the end of Tuesday’s Commissioner’s Court meeting he had been “diagnosed with a lethal disease,” later identified as Leukemia, and that he would begin treatment as soon as next week. It’s unknown at this time how advanced Cobb’s leukemia diagnosis is. 

On the dais, an emotional...