South Florida's other industry
It looks like the Federales are going to be with us for a long time, because the local watchdogs either dropped the ball or never picked it up in the first place.
I have a theory about why government corruption is so rampant and enduring down here. A lot of people, the ones with enough time on their hands to vote, move down and leave the grown kids up north. This means they have no stake in the future of the area.
All they want is to be left alone to enjoy their twilight years and be allowed to die in peace. As for government, as long as it maintains a relatively low tax rate and keeps the hooligans from kicking in the condo door or snatching one's purse in the parking lot, then it's done its job. If somebody wants to use his office to make a side living, that's his business. When election time comes, you vote for whom you've heard of.
Which is where campaign fund contributions come in.
CHAN LOWE has been the Sun Sentinel’s first and only editorial cartoonist for the past twenty-six years. Before that, he worked as cartoonist and writer for the Oklahoma City Times and the Shawnee (OK) News-Star.
