[Congressman Billybob]

If one wanted to see a "culture of corruption," a good place to look would be in Baltimore, under the administrations of Tommy D'Alesandro, Jr., and Tommy, III, both of whom served as Mayor.

Measured by indictments, the younger one was more corrupt. He beat a rape charge as a young man. Then as Mayor he was part of an indictment of several officials for corruption, including a City Councilman, the legendary "Mimi" DiPietro.

The corruption charges were dismissed, when the chief witness "disappeared and could not be found." About a week after the charges were dropped, the witness surfaced in Las Vegas, staying at a casino with purported ties to the (shh) Mafia (shh).

Why do I mention all this from a generation ago, now? Why Nancy Pelosi grew up as Nancy D'Alesandro (and was vriefly my next-door neighbor). She grew up in a true "culture of corruption" since she was the daughter of one and the sister of another Mayor of Baltimore who ran the cash-and-carry D'Alesandro machine in that City.

And now you know the rest of the story.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "The 'Hard Bigotry' of Incompetence at the NY Times"

[pieces of time]

Thank you, thank you. I'm not a native of Maryland but some of the history makes my skin crawl and the machine here is still quite strong.

With all of the corruption in the RAT party Pelosi has one hell of a nerve. Pelosi seems to have missed the theft of our future MD Senator Steel's identity and credit report by Schumer's staff. Schumer I'm sure is totally innocent...my rear end.

Maybe we can start a thread of RAT corrupt politicians but it would have to be trimmed down to a month or less because of all that's coming out of Chicago and LA.