Wednesday, January 25, 2006
State corruption watch
Even as top lawmakers are being convicted of corruption, the criminal investigations of the way the public's business continues to be conducted at the Capitol are intensifying. The latest sign is news of a federal grand jury investigation into a controversial state travel contract. Bringing to justice the ringleaders of the so-called caucus scandal, while important, will not put an end to Wisconsin's political corruption problem, because the problem is not a handful of politicians who lost their way, it's a system that is rotten to the core. Until this system that forces politicians to take out a second mortgage on their souls to run competitively for public office is changed, we'll continue to have more investigations, indictments and convictions.
