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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (55779)	7/12/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

The old machines were certainly corrupt, but in many instances what was called corruption was simply keeping money in the neighborhood. For example, I know a couple of retirees in Hartford who made money by serving papers in place of the sheriff, whose job it was to do that. When the orders to serve papers would pile up the sheriff would send these guys out to serve them and would then pay them a large percentage of what he was paid, keeping a small percentage for himself. This gave the retirees a little extra money and the sheriff got to relax a little. Corruption? I guess so, but who was harmed? By the way, the sheriff in question lost the last election. His opponent made a big deal about the issue discussed above. Now they have a better groomed, more sophisticated corruption up there.