Top 10 Most Corrupt States in U.S.

[rudder]

Look at all the red states...:whiste:

http://fortune.com/2014/06/10/most-corrupt-states-in-america/?xid=ob_rss

If you take out the True blue democrats in Memphis... Tennessee would likely drop off the list.

 

[phillyTIM]

Pennsylvania is the 5th most corrupt state ONLY because of the stain of Philadelphia.

Look at all the red states...:whiste:

http://fortune.com/2014/06/10/most-corrupt-states-in-america/?xid=ob_rss

 

[MrPickins]

Like it is any surprise that governtment is corrupt. How is this even newsworthy? We have all known this for years.

Fixed that for you.

 

[soundforbjt]

If you take out the True blue democrats in Memphis... Tennessee would likely drop off the list.

And if you took Chicago off Illinois, it would probably drop off the list as well.

 

[jhbball]

Grow up.

lol, you would have made the EXACT same comment if it was a list of blue states. Shut the fuck up, trash can.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

True...But does that mean the repub voters in those states are easily duped into voting for corrupt dems?

The big cities in these red states are controlled by Democrats and those guilty of corruption can equally be from the Democratic party as the Republican party. Only hacks can see the party they support as not being part of the corruption.

 

[bshole]

Pennsylvania is the 5th most corrupt state ONLY because of the stain of Philadelphia.

As an avid Green Bay Packer fan I can vouch for the fact that Phildelphia Eagle fans are the worst people on earth. Despicable low-life vermin who are universally despised by all other NFL fans.

 

[soundforbjt]

The big cities in these red states are controlled by Democrats and those guilty of corruption can equally be from the Democratic party as the Republican party. Only hacks can see the party they support as not being part of the corruption.

Of course, how stupid of me...only big cities controlled by Democrats can have corruption... the small towns with "good old boy corruption" don't count.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

LOL you modern progressives libbies just can't get a break.. What a thread backfire.


And I love how states who actually prosecute and stop corruption are "bad" to a modern progressive. Too funny.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Of course, how stupid of me...only big cities controlled by Democrats can have corruption... the small towns with "good old boy corruption" don't count.

That's not what I said or am saying, you're the one claiming that the reason the red states have corruption is because of Republicans in power, which it's possible. Just as it's possible that Democrats in power within the state can be equally corrupt.

But we all know only the party you support is corruption free. You're just the opposite side of the same coin as Michal1980 and why most of what you post is just as biased as his crap.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

According to that study, my state is the least corrupt state in the union. Which kind of leaves me scratching my head as to just how fucked up things must be everywhere else.

 

[soundforbjt]

That's not what I said or am saying, you're the one claiming that the reason the red states have corruption is because of Republicans in power, which it's possible. Just as it's possible that Democrats in power within the state can be equally corrupt.

But we all know only the party you support is corruption free. You're just the opposite side of the same coin as Michal1980 and why most of what you post is just as biased as his crap.

Dems can be corrupt, never said they couldn't, please quote where I said this explicitly. Obviously Red states (which apparently have more repubs vs dems) have more corruption than Blue states (which have more dems vs repubs). You come up with why this is as saying the large cities are controlled by Dems, ignoring or giving a pass to the rural areas which can be just as corrupt. You're just a bad, but won't admit it.

I lived in KY for 8 years and saw lots of corruption in small towns by good old boy repubs...

 

[piasabird]

I think quite often it is the Feds doing the arrests for the state corruption.

 

[Atreus21]

Dems can be corrupt, never said they couldn't, please quote where I said this explicitly. Obviously Red states (which apparently have more repubs vs dems) have more corruption than Blue states (which have more dems vs repubs). You come up with why this is as saying the large cities are controlled by Dems, ignoring or giving a pass to the rural areas which can be just as corrupt. You're just a bad, but won't admit it.

I lived in KY for 8 years and saw lots of corruption in small towns by good old boy repubs...

Take New Orleans off the list (run by democrats for years) and see how Louisiana plummets.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Dems can be corrupt, never said they couldn't, please quote where I said this explicitly. Obviously Red states (which apparently have more repubs vs dems) have more corruption than Blue states (which have more dems vs repubs). You come up with why this is as saying the large cities are controlled by Dems, ignoring or giving a pass to the rural areas which can be just as corrupt. You're just a bad, but won't admit it

Yep Michal Jr, you're a hack pure and simple and always will be.

No way you can claim you weren't putting the blame for corruption on the Republican party in the red states

Top 10 Most Corrupt States in U.S.
Look at all the red states...:whiste:

Fact = Inner/large cities are controlled by Democrats, Rural areas are run by Republicans.

 

[soundforbjt]

Yep Michal Jr, you're a hack pure and simple and always will be.

No way you can claim you weren't putting the blame for corruption on the Republican party in the red states



Fact = Inner/large cities are controlled by Democrats, Rural areas are run by Republicans.

Fact - Rural areas can be as corrupt as big cities, no matter what you "feel".

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Fact = Inner/large cities are controlled by Democrats, Rural areas are run by Republicans.

Fact = Every state in the union consists of both urban and rural areas. These charts are considering states as a whole, not parsing it out into cities vs. rural areas, so trying to distinguish between Democrat vs. Republican control on an urban/rural divide should have absolutely no bearing on these rankings. In fact, if we use the logic that Democrats control all the large cities and large cities are inherently more corrupt, we'd expect to see this list populated by states with the largest population centers: New York, California, Texas, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, etc. If the urban corruption is influencing this list so heavily, why are states without lots of large urban centers showing up? Why Alaska, Mississippi, Alabama and South Dakota, states that are predominantly rural? Why is the list of least corrupt states dominated by states that traditionally vote liberal: Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Vermont?

Actually, looking through that list, there doesn't seem to be any real correllation between political affiliation and corruption at all. Utah, Nebraska and Kansas are very conservative and they're also not corrupt; New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois are liberal and they're corrupt. There's a scattershot of red and blue throughout the rankings, enough so that you couldn't say "this is a red state, therefore it will be corrupt." But let's not let that stop us from twisting the data to indicate that <insert political party> are a bunch of crooks and liars.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Fact - Rural areas can be as corrupt as big cities, no matter what you "feel".

Never claimed they weren't Michal Jr.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Fact = Every state in the union consists of both urban and rural areas. These charts are considering states as a whole, not parsing it out into cities vs. rural areas, so trying to distinguish between Democrat vs. Republican control on an urban/rural divide should have absolutely no bearing on these rankings. In fact, if we use the logic that Democrats control all the large cities and large cities are inherently more corrupt, we'd expect to see this list populated by states with the largest population centers: New York, California, Texas, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, etc. If the urban corruption is influencing this list so heavily, why are states without lots of large urban centers showing up? Why Alaska, Mississippi, Alabama and South Dakota, states that are predominantly rural? Why is the list of least corrupt states dominated by states that traditionally vote liberal: Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Vermont?

Actually, looking through that list, there doesn't seem to be any real correllation between political affiliation and corruption at all. Utah, Nebraska and Kansas are very conservative and they're also not corrupt; New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois are liberal and they're corrupt. There's a scattershot of red and blue throughout the rankings, enough so that you couldn't say "this is a red state, therefore it will be corrupt." But let's not let that stop us from twisting the data to indicate that <insert political party> are a bunch of crooks and liars.

I said in an earlier post that Republican can be as corrupt as Democrats. Let's get it down to a common denominator, some politicians will be corrupt no matter their party affiliation.

 

[soundforbjt]

I said in an earlier post that Republican can be as corrupt as Democrats. Let's get it down to a common denominator, some politicians will be corrupt no matter their party affiliation.

Yet, you have to resort to insults, I thought you were better than some of the right-wing hacks here, guess I was wrong.

 

[HumblePie]

Most of those are red states, but for all them, their large cities are primarily blue. The politicians arrested in those places tend to be from the big cities in those states which are blue run. So what does that tell you? Absolutely nothing.

Atomic pointed it out earlier. Corrupt people come in all colors.

 

[chucky2]

I'm just bummed that IL was only #4...

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Of course, how stupid of me...only big cities controlled by Democrats can have corruption... the small towns with "good old boy corruption" don't count.

LOL you're just mad because you lost the travyon/zimmerman situation. And the felon thug crew/dunn case, he was ONLY convicted for shooting at the vehicle as it was leaving, not for murdering the kid that pointed a gun/camera tripod at him.

Add on to the fact that you all have hurt gun control more than helped it. Your Dear Leader is constantly embarrassed by every other world leader.


What a terrible time to be a modern progressive.

 

[soundforbjt]

LOL you're just mad because you lost the travyon/zimmerman situation. And the felon thug crew/dunn case, he was ONLY convicted for shooting at the vehicle as it was leaving, not for murdering the kid that pointed a gun/camera tripod at him.

Add on to the fact that you all have hurt gun control more than helped it. Your Dear Leader is constantly embarrassed by every other world leader.


What a terrible time to be a modern progressive.

I don't believe the Dunn case is over yet, unless you have a link to show otherwise...Wasn't Florida on that corrupt list? Didn't you claim Dunn would walk?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Second, the study looks at convictions for corruption, there's no study of the actual underlying amount of corruption, just in convictions. If a state was very strict on corruption of public officials and frequently prosecuted them and got convictions, that state would be classified as "corrupt" based on this methodology, even though the actual corruption would be much lower than other states.

Fatally flawed assumptions based on fatally flawed study.

fwiw they do look for a correlation between convictions of corruption and "work hours of U.S. attorneys divided by state population (or by the number of public employees), number of federal judges per citizen (or per public employee), amount of district courts’ caseloads per judge, or the amount of pending rates per judge", and claim not to see anything statistically significant. I never took stats so I won't comment on the numbers themselves, but they didn't simply count convictions and divide by population to make their list.