Low friends in high places…
Patrick Corcoran, at Gancho Blog, is worried about a report from Excelsior over “the Interior Secretary’s conclusion that 16 of the candidates for federal deputy have been financed by drug money.”
My God! The Chamber of Deputies might become a cesspool of respectability. Considering there are 500 posts up for election, and many of the 300 direct electoral district posts have anywhere from three to seven candidates, the odds of all 16 being elected are pretty slim. And… even if that were to happen, it might mean a whopping three percent of the Chamber was part of the narco-caucus.
And there’s no guarantee they narco-deputies would be, as Simon Cameron, Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War, said:
An honest politician … one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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