Sentences with phrase «poster child for corruption»

Maryland, which is a poster child for corruption, would be far better governed if the power was taken out of the hands of entrenched political interests, and given back to the people.
Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause / NY, said in a statement that Espada is «the poster child for corruption and the wholesale flaunting of our campaign finance and ethics laws.»
Common Cause celebrated former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s conviction, calling him the «poster child for corruption and the wholesale flaunting of our campaign finance and ethics laws.»

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Despite years of soaring rhetoric, not only has he failed to bring corruption to heel as repeatedly promised, he has become the poster child for it.
Based on the official university whitewashes of Climategate thus far in support of such corruption of science for political ends, the odds must be that they will surely find something, somewhere to pin on Wegman, to punish him for failing to validate the Hockey Stick, the poster child of alarmism.
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