You are implying the Republicans do better in this regard. I say BS; both
parties have demonstrated quite clearly they are unable or unwilling to
police their own.

While some of the replies to this statement have been superb, I'm not
convinced that it's really an issue of political party. At the city level,
anytime a single party controls things for any length of time, the
corruption begin to pop up like mushrooms on an old tree stump. Pittsburgh
has painted itself into bankruptcy not because of Democratic Party policies
per se, but because the Democrats have been in control -- not a single
Republican on the city council -- for over 60 uninterupted years. Half the
judges and senior officials in town come from the same 3 or 4 families.
With no competition to keep things honest, the Pittsburgh wing of the
Democratic Party has morphed into one gigantic self-perpetuating machine.
We used to produce steel. Now we produce no-show government jobs for other
people's nephews and brother-in-laws.