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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:31 AM
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Is your state corrupt?
Mine (NY) is. But the politicians here are a lot smarter about it than they seem to be in Illinois.

:wtf:
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Veritas_et_Aequitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:32 AM
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1. You mean there are states that aren't corrupt?
Which ones are they, and how soon could I move there?
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:33 AM
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2. The state of Innocence is not corrupt.
Yet.
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Veritas_et_Aequitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:40 AM
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4. Ah, I remember that place.
I was banished when I turned 8. I don't think they want me back after everything.
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timtom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:38 AM
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3. What -- FLORIDA??
Don't be absurd...
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:41 AM
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5. no. but the people who run it are.
nt
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:41 AM
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6. My state is full of Blunts (MO)
I don't know if it's corruption or just assholism.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:43 AM
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7. In CT we have a gov who went to jail and several mayors and one mayor who molested two children
I would say it has been pretty dismal here.
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mahina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:44 AM
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8. Institutionally corrupt, with a big shiny seal of the state behind it.
But we don't stop working on it.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:46 AM
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9. I live in New York . . . next question . . . n/t
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:47 AM
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10. Here in Virginia,
we're running on the straight and narrow. The current status of our Democratic governor and soon-to-be two - TWO! - Democratic Senators, as well as my own Democratic Congressman, is quite satisfactory for me, and for a whole lot of Virginians as well.

I'm not sure the Southern mores would permit the kind of corruption found in Illinois. We're just too well-mannered.

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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:48 AM
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11. Since June 20th 1863!
Before that the crooks in Virginia ran the place!
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:48 AM
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12. Blackwell - nuff said
things are better now though I doubt we're all cleaned up yet.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:49 AM
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13. West Virginia: Coal, gas, and the Chemical industries rule this state to the people's detriment
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ellie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:52 AM
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14. Ohio used to be
but then Ken Blackwell and Bob Taft got the boot and Tom Noe went to jail.

Now we have the glorious Ted Strickland and the equally fabulous Jennifer Brunner and Ohio went blue in November.
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DianeK Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:53 AM
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15. for the most part I would say that
Vermont is pretty free of corruption. I am not so happy about the reelection of our Republican Governor but I would not say that he is corrupt and I am very happy with our Washington delegation, Leahy, Sanders and Welch
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ipfilter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:54 AM
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16. OK hits the trifecta.
Corrupt, backwards, and bright red.
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Shiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 09:59 AM
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17. Wisconsin? I have no idea...
Maybe we're in the pocket of Big Dairy? Someone else from here could probably tell you better, my knowledge of state politics is limited... city politics even more so... :shrug:
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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 10:24 AM
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18. Yes, but they all cover for each other still.. FL is asshole land.
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