AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Corruption charges don't necessarily deter voters.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Dick Polman
PHILADELPHIA _ When the news broke that the FBI had bugged Philadelphia Mayor John Street's office as part of a federal corruption probe, many observers thought his fate had been sealed, and that city voters would surely oust him Nov. 4.
But history demonstrates that beleaguered U.S. mayors do quite well at the polls, that a federal probe is akin to a badge of honor, and that a mayor can even get points for spending time in the slammer.
Tribal loyalties _ ethnic, racial, political _ have often outweighed any qualms about ethics. And in the words of Darrell West, a political analyst based in Providence, R.I.: "Voters are very cynical these days. They already think that most politicians are a little crooked, especially at the city level, so when somebody is `under investigation,' why should that be a disqualifier?"
Street hasn't been charged with any criminal wrongdoing; nor have aides or close associates. But criminal charges would not necessarily deter voters. Consider:
In Providence, Vincent "Buddy" Cianci won back the mayoralty in 1990 after ...
- FORMER JPPS DEPUTY DIRECTOR CLAIMS TRAIL TO CORRUPTION CHARGES.
- News wire article from: BERNAMA The Malaysian National News Agency February 2, 2007 700+ words
...Bee Majanil fixed the date after Ahmad Khairi pleaded not guilty to all the four corruption charges which he was alleged to have committed about four years ago She also allowed Ahmad Khairi, 56, who was unrepresented, bail of RM10,000 in...
- Corruption charges don't necessarily deter voters.
- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) October 31, 2003 700+ words
...convicted 22 Cianci underlings on corruption charges. In Washington, Marion...Bridgeport, Conn., two years ago, while Mayor Joseph Ganim...election. In Atlanta two years ago, the Republican mayoral...worked for Mayor Daley 40 years ago, and it worked in Bridgeport...
- Taiwan candidate stresses corruption charges against incumbents.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire March 18, 2004 700+ words
...election and this year's vote is the corruption charges alleged against both incumbents during...then and now, Soong said that "four years ago, the KMT government was replaced for...transactions." "It's ironic that four years ago, Chen Shui-bian accused Lee Teng...
- Khaleda faces new corruption charges.
- Magazine article from: Business Recorder September 29, 2008 700+ words
...complex in north Dhaka. The mother and son face three other corruption charges involving multinational energy contracts, officials said...in law and order. The last parliament was dissolved two years ago, but escalating political violence has stalled fresh parliamentary...
- COMPANY DIRECTOR FACES SEVEN CORRUPTION CHARGES.
- News wire article from: BERNAMA The Malaysian National News Agency February 24, 2009 700+ words
...counts of accepting bribes, totalling RM38,000, two years ago. Ruslan Md Kasim, 48, was alleged to have accepted the...Court so that it could be heard together with two other corruption charges involving Ruslan. "The case in Shah Alam is for soliciting...
- Former Czech MP acquitted of corruption charges.
- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports March 8, 2007 700+ words
...former assemblyman Tomas Hrdlicka (ODS) were acquitted of corruption charges today. The state attorney suspected Dolezal of having demanded...from a businessman for Hrdlicka, then assemblyman, two years ago. Hrdlicka chaired the town planning commission that rejected...
- Taiwan's Chen detained on corruption charges.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire November 12, 2008 700+ words
...ordered the detention of former President Chen Shui-bian on corruption charges Wednesday, marking an ignominious fall for the man who...suburban Taipei facility where as a dissident leader 21 years ago he served eight months for defaming an official of the ruling...
- Deerfield Beach Mayor Albert Capellini arrested on corruption charges.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 13, 2008 700+ words
...back arrests of two longtime leaders on unrelated felony corruption charges. Four-term Mayor Albert Capellini was charged Friday...jumped into politics after arriving in Deerfield Beach 20 years ago. He won a single term as commissioner in 1989 and has been...
- Former Czech MP Dolezal acquitted of corruption charges.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire March 8, 2007 700+ words
...former assemblyman Tomas Hrdlicka (ODS) were acquitted of corruption charges today. The state attorney suspected Dolezal of having demanded...from a businessman for Hrdlicka, then assemblyman, two years ago. Hrdlicka chaired the town planning commission that rejected...
- State Rep. Anderson in jail on "public corruption" charges.
- News wire article from: Anchorage Daily News (Anchorage, AK) December 8, 2006 700+ words
...state Rep. Tom Anderson on Thursday afternoon on "public corruption" charges, the FBI said. Anderson was still in custody at the Anchorage...said. Anderson, who was elected to the state House four years ago to represent Muldoon but did not seek re-election in November...
Source: HighBeam Research, Corruption charges don't necessarily deter voters.(Knight Ridder...