Apparently, the Republican party is corrupt at the state level as well as the federal level. Given the state of the current Republican leadership, and how much of it is current either under indictment or investigation, this isn’t all that surprising.
New York’s Republicans have their own Abramhoff-type scandal. You can read about it over at Irregular Times. There’s more on it over at New York Liberal.
This is an excerpt from Irregular Times article.
The elements are all there. Illegal gifts. Secret meetings at lavish vacation getaways. Politicians sleeping over at Walter Rich’s mansion in Cooperstown, New York. Real estate giveaways to campaign donors. Huge government grants for railroads that don’t exist. Forced employees donations to Republican candidates. A tell-all book from an insider to the Walter Rich empire that is about to hit the shelves.
[...] There is an article about California State Controller, Democrat Steve Westly over at the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate.com website. It raises some questions about how he was able to profit from stock trades he made during the dot-com boom. The pattern of his trades strongly resemble those of someone using a banned stock-manipulation scheme called laddering. Granted, most of the government corruption stories I have posted thus far are related to the Republican party and the rampant cronyism in the Bush regime, as seen in here, here, and here. [...]