Political Corruption

Here is a piece on political corruption, with state-by-state rankings of the top 35.
Here are the top 10.

1. Louisiana(7.67)
2. Mississippi (6.66)
3. Kentucky (5.18)
4. Alabama (4.76)
5. Ohio(4.69)
6. Illinois (4.68)
7. Pennsylvania (4.55)
8. Florida (4.47)
9. New Jersey (4.32)
10. New York (3.95)

Now why should Illinois rank so low? Well it's because the ranking is based on convictions for political corruption per 100,000 residents. Granted, you have to come up with some way to rank this sort of thing, but I believe the reason Illinois isn't at or much closer to the top, is because the criteria for rank depends on convictions.

When you own the judges, convictions are much harder to get, something the rubes in Miss, Ky, and Alabama haven't figured out yet.

My own state comes in at 29, something I expect to improve (?) as we now have Dem. majorities in both houses, and the Governors seat.