Check out Sunland Park.
Half the Rat's around here are under Federal indictment for charges ranging from "money laundering" to "conspiracy with intent to distribute" and they still keep getting re-elected.
I was at a party on the West Side of El Paso in 1986.
There was a drunk City Councilman there, dim of course. He slurred to me, “Boy, that Lee Chagra, he was the smartest man I ever knew”.
I replied, “Then why is he a dead drug dealer?”