DC Scandals Highlight Corruption of Political Class

A fringe mayoral candidate says at a D.C. Council hearing that “the mayor is a crook.” The city’s attorney general accuses council member Harry Thomas Jr. of spending more than $300,000 of public money on a luxury vehicle and personal travel. The new council chairman, Kwame R. Brown, is embarrassed into giving up the fancy sport-utility vehiclethat the city ordered to his specifications. The new mayor, Vincent C. Gray, gets rid of his chief of staff after reports that several children of top officials were given city jobs.

It doesn't take a political insider to see that such scandals are not specific to DC. Anyone who reads, is capable of understanding that this narrative of political and corporate corruption is epidemic across the U.S..