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I think Illinois gives NY a run for their money. Remember Blagojevich trying to sell the senate seat?
by ameister14 7y ago
I think Illinois gives NY a run for their money. Remember Blagojevich trying to sell the senate seat?
- chimeracoder 7y ago> I think Illinois gives NY a run for their money. Remember Blagojevich trying to sell the senate seat? Blagojevich is an amateur. He got caught. The ones who are the best at corruption are the ones who can keep it up for years - decades - successfully.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoMoney is really good at masking systemic problems (like government run by idiots, corruption, etc) because you can just throw money at wherever the problem rears it's head. I don't know if Chicago is more corrupt or they're just less able/willing to put up an expensive front of propriety. Everyone loves to cite the number of politicians that get prosecuted or go to jail for corruption. To me that says the corruption doesn't run very deep.
- ameister14 7y ago>Everyone loves to cite the number of politicians that get prosecuted or go to jail for corruption. To me that says the corruption doesn't run very deep. Meh, it could also simply be deep local corruption and shallow Federal corruption. If the FBI is coming, that doesn't mean that your State government isn't corrupt, just that it doesn't have enough power to influence federal.
- asdff 7y agoLocal government in Chicago is designed to make corruption as efficient as possible. The alderman are like mini dictators.