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A Letter to the People of Lake County Indiana: Corruption, Pay-to-Play, Pete Visclosky
One Nerve Left ^ | March 29, 2010

Posted on 03/30/2010 3:21:46 AM PDT by rightwing23

I came across this letter written regarding Northwest Indiana-Lake County politics, and it felt prudent to post this (excerpted version) here. Regardless of who you support in the NWI GOP Primary elections, most of these points in this well-written, yet wordy plea ring true.

...."I must then appeal to you, as a citizen who is greatly concerned with the direction our beloved country is going, to your belief in holding politicians liable for their machinations and their specious belief systems. As such, I must request you please take a deeper look at the unprecedented corruption, as well as the unsung political reform movement currently taking place here in Lake County, Indiana."

"Much can be said of the staggering levels of corruption and graft, which has turned Lake County into a verifiable ‘Tammany Hall’ style syndicate, consequently enabling 80 years of Democratic rule in Indiana’s First Congressional District....."

(Excerpt) Read more at onenerveleft.couragetosee.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: corruption; machine; nwi; pastore

1 posted on 03/30/2010 3:21:46 AM PDT by rightwing23
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