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State Government Corruption Risk
Report cards are out. Good thing this isn't the Department of Education because they probably would have graded on the "curve"
Highest score....87% New Jersey
Lowest score....49% Georgia
Maryland "earned" a D-minus. Not sure how they dodged the F. Must have been copying off of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
They did fail in the expected, key areas (unsurprising)
Public Access to Information = F
Executive Accountability = F
Legislative Accountability = F
Link here: State Integrity dot org
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03-19-2012, 07:31
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Illinois is LESS corrupt than... oh, I don't know, almost ANYwhere?
I'm sorry, but I have to throw down the-
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03-19-2012, 07:57
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Sounds like people with an agenda.
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03-19-2012, 08:11
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Kansas garnered a 9th place ranking among the 50 states......and they had a 'C' average!
Sad.
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03-19-2012, 11:45
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Nice to live ia a state that got an "A" for internal auditing  .
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03-19-2012, 12:08
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I call BS as well. Off the top of my head, I can name 3 instances of legislative corruption in NYC alone from within the past 6 months, and those are the ones that got caught: Rangel, Lui, Espada. While we are at it: Spitzer, Wiener, NYPD CompStat fudging, top Nassau cops and Gary Parker, John Haggerty and more... 
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03-19-2012, 12:23
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I call BS as well. Off the top of my head, I can name 3 instances of legislative corruption in NYC alone from within the past 6 months, and those are the ones that got caught: Rangel, Lui, Espada. While we are at it: Spitzer, Wiener, NYPD CompStat fudging, top Nassau cops and Gary Parker, John Haggerty and more... |
Good point.
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03-20-2012, 00:17
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Ah...
The futility of seeking "truth" in a report about government corruption...
A state that was caught trying to sell a senate seat, that has a history of putting its gov'ners in prison, managed to pull a "C" average?
...good times.
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03-20-2012, 02:11
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*Sigh* What horseshit. I guess that is what to expect from NPR.
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03-20-2012, 07:59
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Illinois is LESS corrupt than... oh, I don't know, almost ANYwhere?
I'm sorry, but I have to throw down the-
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Whadahyutalkin' 'bout? We paid gud money for that rating. Ask former GOV Blago . . . he's got 14 years to answer the mail.
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03-20-2012, 08:31
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Originally Posted by ZonieDiver
Illinois is LESS corrupt than... oh, I don't know, almost ANYwhere? I'm sorry, but I have to throw down the-
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I call BS as well.
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*Sigh* What horseshit. I guess that is what to expect from NPR.
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Read any of the summaries? Although attempting to assign grades to something like this is, IMO, counter-productive, there's actually some pretty interesting reading of what's been going on around the country in there, as well as what's being done or not being done about it.
- 50 states and no winners
...State Integrity Investigation, a first-of-its-kind, data-driven assessment of transparency, accountability and anti-corruption mechanisms...
http://www.stateintegrity.org/state_...overview_story
- Illinois: The story behind the score
http://www.stateintegrity.org/illinois_story_subpage
- New York: The story behind the score
http://www.stateintegrity.org/newyork_story_subpage
And so it goes...
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03-20-2012, 09:01
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Creative story telling that strives to show most politicians as defenders of the helpless is like using a truck load of kiwi to polish a turd to a glossy shine...
...and even if you get it to shine, under the sparkle its still just shit.
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03-20-2012, 09:36
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MOO, anything that NPR appears to be involved with gives pause for reflection.
Have known/know too many people that work for them to believe otherwise. 
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03-20-2012, 12:37
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Reporters reviewing in-state (and major MSM) rag reporting. The whole thing is horsehockey. Wyoming a big 'F' - hell, they probably couldn't find WY on a map.
Still, as Richard said, some of the snippets were fondly recalled...
Like the Milwaukee legislator cited for voting fraud because her mother took in homeless people - including a felon on work-release - to help them get on their feet and just happened to "encourage" them to vote.
I guess if you live north of Chicago you can still do it "the Chicago way."
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