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To: tejek who wrote (253126)	9/29/2005 10:51:32 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1580692

"I think Texas must be right up there after listening to Tom Delay yesterday." While DeLay has brought new blood to the good ol' boys who like to go by a wink and a handshake, he still has more work to do. If he keeps shepherding large sums of money through the state, he very well may pull it off. I found this corporatecrimereporter.com Although their methodology needs some work given that they take the number of convictions for corruption by state officials and norm it to the population size. As they note, this is federal convictions, if it is handled on the state or local level the figures are reflected in their data. In addition, if the federal prosecutors don't file charges, then that, of course, doesn't get reflected either. Likewise, a very zealous prosecutor might catch stuff that others miss. The numbers in parentheses are the number of convictions per 100,000. According to our survey, the ten most corrupt states in the country are: 1. Mississippi (7.48) 2. North Dakota (7.09) 3. Louisiana (7.05) 4. Alaska (6.06) 5. Illinois (5.26) 6. Montana (4.95) 7. South Dakota (4.86) 8. Kentucky (4.59) 9. Florida (4.58) 10. New York (4.56) According to our survey, the ten least corrupt states in the country are: 1. Nebraska (0.52) 2. Oregon (0.59) 3. New Hampshire (0.86) 4. Iowa (0.95) 5. Colorado (0.97) 6. Utah (1.03) 7. Minnesota (1.11) 8. Arizona (1.22) 9. Arkansas (1.32) 10. Wisconsin (1.47) Another ranking by the Better Government Association, ranks states by their laws, whether enforced or not. It is more complicated, so here is the link bettergov.org Texas ranks higher than I would have expected on this one. We, in general, tend not to have many laws on a lot of things. Every once in a while, they come up with a surprisingly good one...

To: tejek who wrote (253126)	9/30/2005 6:58:21 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580692

I think it's "cleaner" now, but when I lived in Austin, I occassionally used to watch the clownish legislature in my slacker life for entertainment. I suppose in any legislature you get the demented sons of the rural powerful and wealthy, but Texas being so big, you get a lot MORE. I wasn't there, but one day the "Chicken King" came to the capitol. He needed a variance in state law passed so he could build a super stinky chicken farm in a place where he wasn't supposed to. He strolled around the legislature, gladhanding and handing out 10k checks to "cash" to willing representatives. He got his chicken farm!