Posted on 09/16/2013 7:56:42 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
A book by Tribune-Review state Capitol writer Brad Bumsted, due for release on Sept. 9, chronicles decades of indictable escapades by some of the state's most powerful, compelling and flawed politicians.
In “Keystone Corruption: A Pennsylvania Insider's View of a State Gone Wrong,” published by Camino Books Inc., Bumsted pulls back the curtain on scandals from the Capitol's graft-ridden construction at the turn of the 20th century to the recent reigns of former House Speakers Bill DeWeese and John Perzel, now state inmates KN1888 and KM4619.
(Excerpt) Read more at triblive.com ...
You could spend the next four or five decades writing about nothing BUT political corruption in this state, and you would never run short of material.
You speak the truth. The handful of politicians already in prison is just a sample. Hundreds more go unpunished.
It’s going to get worse in the coming months - especially for the OAG.
Lots of Democrats and no shortage of old-school mafia.
You could not ask for a better environment.
Some people ask why I moved from Pennsylvania to Louisiana. I tell them I wanted to live somewhere without so much political corruption :)
Dagwood’s son FINALLY grew up?
The R. Budd Dwyer case always intrigued me.
You could fill a War and Peace sized work with just the machinations of Fast Eddie Rendell regarding the awarding of slot casino licenses.
the same would be true here in New York...it never ends...
Yes...and why read it? I want to live a happy life, which is one of the reasons I will never go to Pennsylvania, (or Joisy or Nu Yawk etc.) again!
The RINO and Democrat machines of this state (my state) have a compost pile rich history of corruption.
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