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They tampered with elections!

Ping!

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Cleveland situation different from other cities

“I don’t think this could have happened in any other city except here,” Roberts said, adding that corruption is different in cities like Boston and Chicago.

“People get things done there,” he said, “so people have pride in their city.”

Roberts said the culture of corruption here is so deep, and at times so petty, Clevelanders have grown disillusioned.

“The thievery, the double-dipping, it became an industry,” he said.

“It’s not going to be easy to get rid of that.”

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The article says "sham election" not "sham elections" and it does not refer to election fraud. It refers to an election in which the GOP nominee resigned from the race less than a month before the election, allowing the Democrat to run unopposed. The GOP nominee was then give a cushy county job after the election as a reward.

By the way, the article not only does not mention that Russo is a Democrat, it also fails to mention that Russo's "housemate" (i.e. live-in lover) Michael Calabrese is implicated in these crimes as well.