In a message dated 1/26/2003 10:59:59 AM Eastern Standard Time,
siaassociates@monmouth.com writes:
Some states prosecute and publicize. Most other states like Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Nevada just keep re-electing the crooks. The prevailing
ideology in a place like Louisiana or Illinois, for example, is if there’s
no big whoop, no one will think anything is wrong. At least in New Jersey,
the citizens know within 2 or 3 years. In other states, it takes 15 or 25
to figure out what went down for all those years before, when nobody said
anything about anything.
You are absolutely correct that New Jersey is not by any means unique.
Corruption exists in many states, maybe most states. I think, though, that
Nevada has moved in the right direction over the last ten-twenty years.
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