I believe the corruption occurs nationwide but the one which effects me most directly occurs in my city and is being perpatrated by the local Republican Party.
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Originally posted by Jon Miller
yeah, a third party or two would be great
JMChristianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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If less government is so great, why aren't all the libertarians moving to Somolia and the Congo? Those countries have no governments.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Re: How to fight political corruption
Originally posted by Oerdin
Any other city having near this much trouble with corruption among the ruling elite?
Anyway, my suggestion is to have more transparency in our politicians.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Kid's advocating shooting holes in politicians. Somebody call the FBI.
I guess you could join and/or contribute to some local corruption watch-dog group, Oerdin. One that makes lotsa noise, regardless of which party is being dirty.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
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FYI
Senate rebuffs plan for independent ethics investigator
WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected a proposal to establish an independent office to investigate ethics complaints against its members and then cleared the way to pass a broad-based ethics and lobbying bill this week.
On a 67-30 vote, the Senate defeated a bipartisan proposal to create an office of public integrity, which its backers said was designed to strengthen enforcement of Senate rules and bolster voters' trust in Congress in the wake of the guilty plea in January of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Opponents of the integrity office argued that the Senate's Select Committee on Ethics was already policing complaints thoroughly and without bias and did not need an independent office to assist its investigations.Keep on Civin'
RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O
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The main reason we have so many corrupt politicians is because they get to write their own rules. We need more independent investigators to nail these bastards when they're being unethical and we need every single thing the fellow does while in office to be a matter of public record.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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Senate rebuffs plan for independent ethics investigator...
-Arrian
p.s. If you're talking CivIII, distance-to-capital corruption applied in Despotism, Monarchy, Republic and Democracy. In CivII, I think it was D/M/R. In CivIV, it applies unless you're running the state property econ civic.grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
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Re: How to fight political corruption
Originally posted by Oerdin
I'm hoping to come up with some ideas here because the local Republican Party here in San Diego seems to be especially corrupt even by the standards of the rest of their party. In the last year we've had one mayor resign for cooking the city's books in order to hide massive financial obligations, two city council men arrested for accepting bribes from strip club owners, and one Congressman convicted of accepting bribes to rig defense contracts.
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That assumes that the four exposed where the extent of the problem. I'd say they're just the blatant ones and that the corruption goes much deeper.
National politics is plagued by curroption which has gotten astronomically worse since the Republicans took over. It's so obvious that campaign contributions buy votes from Congressmen, Senators, and the President but we can't even get an independent investigator to investigate the rampant corruption.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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