The executive director of a statewide mental health commission resigned under fire late last Thursday in the wake of the controversy surrounding an expenses-paid six-day trip he took to England this past summer – accompanied by Santa Barbara Sheriff Bill Brown and two other members of the commission. The commission executive, Toby Ewing, resigned after the investigation into the trip, which had been paid for by a private British mental health contractor on whose behalf Ewing had lobbied members of the state legislature.