Posted on 11/10/2015 7:29:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Center for Public Integrity has issued a report that shows tht only three states recieved a grade of better than "D+." The investigation "found that in state after state, open records laws are laced with exemptions and part-time legislators and agency officials engage in glaring conflicts of interests and cozy relationships with lobbyists. Meanwhile, feckless, understaffed watchdogs struggle to enforce laws as porous as honeycombs."
That's pulling no punches.
After describing disturbing practices in several states, the report says:
These are among the practices illuminated by the State Integrity Investigation, which measured hundreds of variables to compile transparency and accountability grades for all 50 states. The results are nothing short of stunning. The best grade in the nation, which went to Alaska, is just a C. Only two others earned better than a D+; 11 states received failing grades. The findings may be deflating to the two-thirds of Americans who, according to a recent poll, now look to the states for policy solutions as gridlock and partisanship have overtaken Washington D.C.The top of the pack includes bastions of progressive government, including California (ranked 2nd with a C-), and states notorious for corrupt pasts (Connecticut, 3rd with a C-, and Rhode Island, 5th with a D+).
In those New England states, scandals led to significant reforms and relatively robust ethics laws, even if dubious dealings linger in the halls of government.
The bottom includes many western states that champion limited government, like Nevada, South Dakota and Wyoming, but also others, such as Maine, Delaware and dead-last Michigan, The results are “disappointing but not surprising,” said Paula A. Franzese, expert in state and local government ethics at Seton Hall University
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Mmhm, sure.
Without reading the article, I knew where Delaware ranked. Delaware is an exclusively RAT state and has long been a bastion of corruption, double dipping and conflicts of interest.
And the sheeple are content.
That's because those are the states that have made Crony Socialism legal.
Why should our states be any different than the UN, the EU or the Federal government?
FFF---
In fairness, I’ll await a Kitzhaber indictment.
Who the hell is the "Center for Public Integrity"? Who died and made them god? Why should I give any credence to their "report"?
RE: Who the hell is the “Center for Public Integrity”?
SOURCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Public_Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose stated mission is “to reveal abuses of power, corruption and dereliction of duty by powerful public and private institutions in order to cause them to operate with honesty, integrity, accountability and to put the public interest first.”
With over 50 staff members, CPI is one of the largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative centers in America. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
That's not a good recommendation for them ...
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