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Article: Republican right wing is razing the GOP.(Joel Connelly)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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They never approached the avarice of Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson, whose freezer held $90,000 in marked dollars, or the late Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell, whose apartment yielded $800,000 cash stuffed into shoeboxes.
Still, the "sleaze wing of the Democratic Party," a name bestowed by Don McGaffin of KING/5 news, used to put underachieving relatives on the public payroll, negotiate land exchanges to benefit contributors, drive while intoxicated, and run guys for re-election who could barely walk.
We were lucky, remarked my parents -- who once lived in New Jersey -- that Republicans out here fielded attractive alternatives.
My ...