"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Geoffrey Barnes" wrote in message
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| 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.

It would be interesting to find some Republican examples of this.


City of Mesa, Arizona.