Current Events > 3% of my state legislature* has been convicted of federal crimes. That's more

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Balrog0
06/15/18 4:15:29 PM
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than the overall incarceration rate for my state -- which is about 1,000 per 100k or 1% and that is fairly high

the investigation isnt over yet either!

*technically the 2013-2014 legislature
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Genocet_10-325
06/15/18 4:16:07 PM
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Which state
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Balrog0
06/15/18 4:40:12 PM
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Arkansas

http://independentarkansas.com/the-3-percent-rules/

Ninety-nine percent of this body are good, honest people, said Sen. Bill Sample, R-Hot Springs, and I think his estimate is not far-fetched. But only 97 percent of the members of the 2013-14 Arkansas Legislature are not going to prison, and that percentage could shrink before all is said and done.

Sample, who was quoted in the Democrat-Gazette, was responding to the latest news to come from federal authorities corruption investigation. In federal court June 7, lobbyist Rusty Cranford pleaded guilty to bribery charges regarding two former legislators who themselves have pleaded or been found guilty, former Sens. Jon Woods, R-Springdale, and Hank Wilkins, D-Pine Bluff.

Those two are awaiting sentencing along with two others from that 2013-14 session, former Sen. Jake Files, R-Fort Smith, and former Rep. Micah Neal, R-Springdale. A fifth ex-legislator, Rep. Eddie Cooper, D-Melbourne, who served from 2005 to the beginning of 2011, has also pleaded guilty to financial wrongdoings. All of it is related to the states General Improvement Fund, a grant program directing state dollars to specific local projects at the behest of individual legislators.

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Genocet_10-325
06/15/18 4:40:42 PM
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Figured it'd be a deep red state
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Questionmarktarius
06/15/18 4:42:37 PM
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Balrog0 posted...
Arkansas

I would never want to live in any state that still bans sunday beer.

Come up north! We have, uh, cows, I guess. Also a pervy governor, or a recently ex-one.
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