The good news we learn from USA Today is that North Carolina’s 179 public corruption convictions from 1998 to 2007 help the state rank outside the top tier of states with high *”per capita” government corruption problems.?
The bad news? If Jim Black, Meg Scott Phipps, and Frank Ballance aren’t enough to place us in the top 10, how bad must governments be in the rest of the country?
Lord Acton looks like wiser by the day.?
HT: Paul Chesser
*I’m not sure this is the best way to gauge a state’s level of corruption. One could argue that a corrupt state House speaker in a state of 9 million people does more damage and offers more evidence of corruption than two corrupt city councillors in a Western state with fewer than 1 million residents.
