Thoughts on corruption

The Daily News has a piece looking at the DeLay indictments and then looking a bit closer to home at the numerous politicians who get away with minor or major end runs around election law, and how oversight folks often bend over backwards to make it possible. New ethics bills (see, e.g., here) will only make a difference if they are respected, and/or if the enforcers have teeth. Here's hoping.

In a semi-related piece, John Baer wonders whether voter frustration might come out in the form of an unprecedented unseating of sitting state Supreme Court justices (perhaps because of Cappy's outspokenness, or just because of their overstuffed financial extras). Personally I'd rather the voters lit a fire under D.A. Lynne Abraham on campaign finance and other enforcement duties, especially since she'll have another primary race soon enough at which her job performance can be rated against a worthy alternative.