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F.O.A.D.

On 7/9/13 12:04 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:26:30 AM UTC-4, F. O. A. D. wrote:

I made no comment about South Carolina's natural beauty, interesting
places or history. The state's natural beauty has little or nothing to
do with the state's horrific politics.

You're quite the drama queen, eh? Besides Maryland is no paradise...

The travails of Sheila Dixon and Ulysses Currie are just the latest in a long line of Maryland political scandals. Here are some of the more recent and memorable scandals.

1973—Then Vice-President Spiro Agnew, pleads nolo contendre (no contest) to tax evasion and bribery during his days as Governor of Maryland.

1977—Governor Marvin Mandel was convicted of mail fraud and racketeering. He served 19 months in prison. Ronald Reagan commuted his sentence in 1987, and one year later the US Court of Appeals overturned his conviction.

1983—Prince Georges County State Senator Tommie Broadwater is convicted of food stamp fraud.

1998—Montgomery County Planning Board Member Ruthann Aron is convicted of contracting a hit man to kill her husband and a lawyer.

1998—The General Assembly expels Senator Larry Young, even though he was acquitted of corruption charges.

2005—Baltimore County State Senator Tommy Bromwell pleads guilty to bribery, falsifying a tax return, and racketeering.

Earlier on I stipulated that no state's or country's political system
was free of personal corruption of politicians, but I also stated -
again - that what I was discussing in horrific politics had to do
with systematic corruption, such as Republican efforts to limit the
rights of women, to restrict the ability of minorities, women, students,
the poor and the elderly to register to vote and vote, to discuss
secession as a threat, and in other ways to try to punish the poor, the
non-white, the non-citizens, et cetera.

Certainly Agnew, Mandel, et al, were personally corrupt, but I don't
think any of the pols you named were as much of a political whore as
your own Lindsay Graham, eh?