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	Political Bull - Political Essays about the world we inhabit
		Throughout all these “scandals” the political system demonstrated its resiliency and ability to overcome the failures of individuals acting within the system.
		Most political “scandals” are the result of imperfect men performing in a system that allows such behavior to flourish under the surface.
		It was determined by the political alignment of the Supreme Court.
	www.politicalbull.net /2000election.shtml (664 words)

	Political Scandals Refuse To Go Away in 'Corrupticut'
		Observers of Connecticut politics say that part of the problem was that ethics rules went unenforced here for so long, allowing corrupt practices to become ingrained before large-scale prosecutions began in the 1980s and 1990s.
		Grimaldi said that the city's political culture dictated that he lavish gifts on the mayor or else worry that his clients would be frozen out of city business.
		They created a system that bars political contributions from state contractors and lobbyists, and aims to reduce the influence of donors overall by providing public financing for candidates in future elections.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/02/AR2006070200595.html (1253 words)

	The Cook Political Report National Overview
		There were also a myriad of scandals that started in the late 1980s that moved voters, including many Democrats, to reject the party's candidates, including some once-popular incumbents.
		That said, this is without question the worst political situation for the GOP since the Watergate disaster in 1974.
		Political aficionados have to wait no longer - the 2006 mid-term election year has arrived.
	www.cookpolitical.com /overview (1564 words)

	Political Scandals \| NewsBusters.org
		While you ponder, it is quite conceivable that this entire media frenzy is not only much ado about nothing, but an example of what happens when today's so-called journalists see what they believe to be Republican blood in the water despite the presence of red dye #2.
		November 16, 2007 - 14:34 ET Veteran Maryland political commentator, radio show host and White House correspondent Les Kinsolving often calls Maryland "The Land of Political Enchantment," and indeed the Old Line State never fails to enchant natives and outsiders alike with its bizarre --William Donald Schaefer comes to mind-- and often corrupt politicos.
		The leak grew into a scandal that embroiled the political elite in Washington....When it was all over, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was charged and convicted of lying to investigators and obstruction of justice.
	newsbusters.org /taxonomy/term/253 (2597 words)

	FOXNews.com - Politicians Gone Wild: Scandals of 2006 - 2006: The Year in Review
		FNC/AP WASHINGTON — Political scandal cast a long shadow over Washington in 2006, forcing some lawmakers who began the year sitting in cushy offices in Congress to finish the year sitting in jail, rehab or back home where they came from.
		Political scandal weighed on the minds of voters and they responded at the polls, said Melanie Sloan, executive director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group.
		Foley's fall from grace was the biggest scandal of the year as it included sex, political injury and fallback on fellow Republicans.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,238763,00.html (1974 words)

	Political scandals in Mexico are not business as usual
		Indeed there are relatively frequent political scandals in Italy, most due to corruption and involving important people from parliament, government or the financial world.
		The political challenge to the new government was to manage in the presidency with a majority of 42 percent, and at the same time provide stability in economic growth.
		Mexico’s current political scandals could have been avoided, that in turn might have kept the presidential race from starting two years prematurely (a struggle that is still not on the proper course) and national judicial institutions from being questioned due to the inability to modernize them.
	www.mexidata.info /id261.html (793 words)

	Presidential Scandals and Job Approval
		Whether researchers are policy analysts, political scientists, economists, sociologists or engineers, they may wish to assess the effect of a discrete event or intervention on some measure of a process.
		The Watergate scandal is one of the greatest political scandals in American political history.
		To develop a theory of political scandals, other scandals -- such as the hostage seizure during the Carter administration, the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, and the current Lewinsky affair and impeachment trial -- would have to be examined.
	www.nyu.edu /its/socsci/Docs/scandals.html (2625 words)

	Vancouver - Top 5 BC Political Scandals (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Usually, Canadian political scandals are boring affairs dealing with golf balls or shady no-bid contracts.
		This fiasco had all the hallmarks of a great political scandal; raids, cover ups, gag orders and many pictures of cops carrying boxes of documents out of offices.
		Politically, he just shed a few tears at his press conference and seemed to wobble away scott free.
	vancouver.com /things_to_do/top_fives/nuts-and-bolts/to-5-bc-political-scandals (628 words)

	McClatchy Washington Bureau \| 09/15/2006 \| A wave of political scandals has paralyzed Brazil
		The onslaught of scandals, most of them still unproved, has fed public anger before the Oct. 1 elections and sparked a growing movement to turn in a blank vote rather than choose between unsavory candidates.
		The largest scandal, dubbed the "bloodsuckers" scheme, involves 72 members of Congress who allegedly accepted bribes to buy ambulances at inflated prices on behalf of 60 mayors, many of whom also supposedly were paid off.
		The bribes-for-vote scandal, dubbed the "mensalao" ("big monthly allowance"), has had the biggest impact, leading to the expulsion of three federal deputies and the resignations of top government officials.
	www.realcities.com /mld/krwashington/15528383.htm (914 words)

	Political scandals rock Israel: World: News: News24
		Jerusalem - The president is locked in a sex scandal, the justice minister has quit over a purported stolen kiss, the prime minister is haunted by a property deal and the country's top general is under fire for stock trading.
		The scandal is unlikely to have any significant political impact as Katsav's post is largely ceremonial.
		Justice minister Haim Ramon resigned late on Sunday after the attorney general said he would indict the veteran politician over allegations by a former government employee that he forcibly kissed her.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1985906,00.html (451 words)

	BRIA(13:1) Presidential elections, political scandals, television, tv attack ads, 1996
		Scandals and sexual misbehavior have increasingly become acceptable topics for the mainstream press to cover.
		Both ads are examples of negative political advertising, which attempts to persuade citizens to vote for one candidate by attacking the opponent's character or views.
		In their political coverage, they have included an "Ad Watch" feature, which analyzes the factual content of TV campaign spots and reports any that are inaccurate or misleading.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria13_1.html (5492 words)

	Aquarian Conspirators: ALERTS, NEWS, COMMENTARY, and the occasional Rant: Golf - Political Scandals - Jack Abramoff (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ominous warning can almost be heard echoing across the greens of the political establishment, where the game is not only a cherished pastime but has increasingly become a critical cog in the wheels of campaign financing and lobbying.
		But the Abramoff scandal, which suggests that tens of thousands of dollars were spent by lobbying groups to fly lawmakers around the world to play golf, in violation of ethical and perhaps legal strictures, exposes golf as an almost irresistible political carrot that is used to buy favor and access.
		But a vast majority of political golf outings these days take place hidden well out of public view; the remoteness and privacy of golf is one of its appeals to politicians who otherwise live under a microscope.
	revolutionagainandagain.blogspot.com /2006/01/golf-political-scandals-jack-abramoff.html (1610 words)

	MILITARY, INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, POLITICAL SCANDALS, AND DEMOCRACY IN BRAZIL - 1998-2000, THE Journal of Political and ...
		The use of scandal, as Machiavelli (1972) observed, is a dangerous game because scandals have a life of their own, and can turn on those who try to use them.
		Success in the use of scandal as a political weapon, then, would seem to depend, at the very least, upon maintaining the anonymity of the provocateur.
		While this is nothing new to comparative democratic government, as politics in the United States have repeatedly demonstrated, the sheer volume and scope of national scandals in Brazil were staggering.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3719/is_200307/ai_n9266465 (667 words)

	MILITARY, INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, POLITICAL SCANDALS, AND DEMOCRACY IN BRAZIL - 1998-2000, THE Journal of Political and ...
		The use of scandal, as Machiavelli (1972) observed, is a dangerous game because scandals have a life of their own, and can turn on those who try to use them.
		Success in the use of scandal as a political weapon, then, would seem to depend, at the very least, upon maintaining the anonymity of the provocateur.
		While this is nothing new to comparative democratic government, as politics in the United States have repeatedly demonstrated, the sheer volume and scope of national scandals in Brazil were staggering.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3719/is_200307/ai_n9266465 (667 words)

	Political scandals steam up cable's 'Capital Tonight' series (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After several days of sex and scandal last week on the Albany-based cable newsmagazine "Capital Tonight," host Brian Taffe almost sounded apologetic.
		He compared it to the week-long marathons of shark nature programs that are shown annually on The Discovery Channel.
		"You could call this Scandal Week on 'Capital Tonight.' And, believe us, we did not plan for it," he told viewers during one edition of the half-hour show, which Time Warner Cable launched weeknights March 6 on its 24-hour news channels in Rochester, Albany and Syracuse.
	www.syracuse.com /living/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/living-2/1160645302294580.xml&coll=1 (342 words)

	Dolin 4 Congress (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And while opposition leaders are quick to parade themselves in front of a microphone to denounce their latest rival who has gotten caught abusing the public trust it is rather sanctimonious for any professional politician to claim ethical high ground these days when it comes to scandals.
		One trend in this ever-increasing list of political scandals is that the longer professional politicians remain in office the greater the likelihood they become corrupt – with each passing day it seems less a matter of “if” and more a matter of “when”.
		The charges were perjury and obstruction of justice arising from the Lewinsky scandal.
	www.dolin4congress.com /political_scandals.html (1083 words)

	Political Corruption (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is similarly inevitable that men in political life, with such enormous power at their disposal, will be tempted to accept such bribery.
		American political philosophy has always held that the legislative branch was to be the supreme branch of government.
		If men such as those involved in today's Watergate scandal, who are not elected by the people and cannot be voted out of office by the people, are unchecked in their exercise of power, the concept of representative and limited government is seriously challenged.
	www.libertyhaven.com /politicsandcurrentevents/scandalsorpoliticalinjustice/politicalcorruption.html (1380 words)

	Scandals in Past and Contemporary Politics (0719065518) GARRARD - Manchester University Press
		The exposure of political corruption and the growth of scandals in advanced democracies since the 1980s has made clear that scandals are a typical phenomenon of the modern age.
		Political corruption and tribunals of inquiry in Ireland, 1991-2003--Gary Murphy * Sex, lies, and audiotapes: the Watergate and Monica Lewinsky scandals in American politics--Eric M. Uslaner * III.
		Political corruption has recently emerged as a key area in the study of advanced industrial nations.
	www.palgrave-usa.com /catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0719065518 (663 words)

	Australian political sex scandals - smh.com.au
		Australian politics has never featured lurid sex scandals remotely approaching the calibre of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky or British war minister John Profumo and Christine Keeler.
		The Lewinsky scandal dominated US politics for a year and remains unrivalled for its revelations of liaisons, undergarments and a certain Cuban product.
		Headlined "In the backyard of their home, a senator and his wife confront a scandal", the photo purported to show the couple attempting to patch up their strained marriage.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/04/1025667032768.html (597 words)

	The meaning of political scandals
		But if the history of Washington scandals teaches us anything, it’s that it’s easier to disgrace an individual than to change the system that gave rise their scandalous behavior.
		This is the way it works in a political system run by an establishment that controls two political parties differing mainly on the margins.
		Instead, a scandal that implicates a handful of corrupt individuals allows the system to blame them--while allowing the same policies, or slightly modified versions of them, to continue under new management.
	www.socialistworker.org /2005-2/562/562_07_Scandals.shtml (652 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Political Scandals
		Political scandals abounded, and public authorities discredited themselves one after another.
		The minister immediately accepted the responsibility and offered to resign, however, as could be expected, his resignation was not accepted: in the sensitive period on the eve of Poland's accession to the European Union, reshuffles at the top of the diplomatic hierarchy would be political suicide.
		By a majority of votes-thanks to deputies of the ruling leftist coalition and its supporters-the committee concluded that the film producer Lew Rywin at the center of the affair was not tied to any political group and that the corrupt proposal made to the Agora company was completely of his own design.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /view/5311 (434 words)

	info: Italian_political_scandals (Site not responding. Last check: )
		political scandals; British political scandals; Canadian political scandals; Chilean political scandals; French political scandals; German political scandals; Indian political scandals; Italian political scandals...
		Hot Topics SeriesIt is suggested that the greatest problems lie in the crisis of the politics of social management (eg, the Italian political scandals of the early 1990s) & the loss of commonly accepted values...
		Luciano Cannito :: CinemaBut suddenly one day, her father is arrested, suspected of being involved in Tangentopoli, one of the biggest Italian political scandals.
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Italian_political_scandals.html (431 words)

	Canada's first political scandal - Scandals, Boondoggles and White Elephants - CBC Archives
		Although Macdonald denies any wrongdoing, the scandal forces the prime minister and the Conservatives to resign in 1873.
		The Pacific scandal handed Alexander Mackenzie and the Liberals a landslide victory in the 1874 general election.
		The scandal led to the cancellation of Allan's railway contract.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-1700-11686/politics_economy/political_scandals/clip1 (490 words)

	The Truth About Political Scandals - Commentary
		Their scandal detection is so sensitive, that they often find scandals that are not even real.
		They are usually recommended by senators from their state and given their jobs for political reasons as well as legal reasons.
		The only possible legal issue would be if the attorneys were fired because they were investigating a case that was of particular political interest to the administration and the president was trying to affect the outcome of the investigation by dismissing the attorney.
	media.www.unewsonline.com /media/storage/paper953/news/2007/03/30/Commentary/The-Truth.About.Political.Scandals-2815755.shtml (407 words)

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	toppoliticalsites.org (1700 words)

	Mark Foley and Other U.S. Political Scandals - Associated Content (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Scandals are par for the course in politics.
		When these high profile scandals pop up in Washington, the media falls all over it, as though it were stunning news, when, in fact, the only surprising thing is that the person in question got caught.
		As if that wasn't enough, one of this country's worst political scandals involved members of Harding's cabinet and was known as The Teapot Dome Scandal.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/71891/error (568 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Big-time political scandals in France!
		She was first arrested in connection with what was going to grow into one of the country's greatest scandals.
		The 74-year-old Sirven was put on a flight to Germany, where authorities held him for four days in a futile effort to question him about yet another scandal involving Elf and bribes allegedly paid in connection with the sale of an oil refinery in formerly-communist East Germany.
		Currently, magistrates are investigating how political parties benefited in the 1980s and early 1990s from kickbacks from public-works contractors.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23074 (841 words)

	Media Cynic -- Independent Political Blog -- Scandals
		Politicians and anyone who has a brain is absolutely livid over the news that President Bush's domestic surveillance program was used to spy illegally on tens of millions of innocent Americans.
		In a sign that political opposition to surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency may be growing, a wide range of top Democrats took aim at the program throughout the day and called for immediate hearings to investigate the president's eavesdropping and data-mining efforts.
		CBS is reporting that the number three official at the CIA, executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, is under investigation for bribery.
	www.mediacynic.com /scandals (2247 words)

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