Criminalizing Politics?
In response to the news in this CNN report, Former Virginia governor found guilty in influence-peddling case, I expect the ‘usual suspects’ to claim we are ‘criminalizing politics’. I look at it as a long overdue attempt to ‘decriminalize politics’ by throwing the crooks in prison.
Currently the governor of the state of Florida is the former CEO of a corporation that paid the largest fine in Medicare/Medicaid history for its practices. He has had to replace the Lieutenant Governor and multiple department heads after it was found that they were crooks of one sort or another. Of course, as the CEO nothing happened to him and he got to buy the Republican nomination for governor with the money he made at the corporation.
Corruption is what you get when ‘you run government like a business’ and the people at the top don’t think they will ever be held responsible.
September 4, 2014 11 Comments
