J. M. Cornwell is a nationally syndicated freelance journalist, award-winning writer, editor, and book reviewer who lives in the Colorado Rockies. Her work has appeared in Columbus Monthly, The New York Times, Ohio Magazine, The Celebrity Cafe, Haunted Encounters, and Cup of Comfort.

Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) When it comes to political scandal, what's worse: Financial chicanery or a sexual peccadillo?

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When it comes to politician's private lives, I do not care what they do with another consenting adult as long as they have the decency not to make it a political or an international issue, but financial chicanery is a breach of trust between an elected official and the people who put him in office. Bottom line: it's stealing.

It isn't about getting your hand caught in the cookie jar snitching a couple extra cookies when you're on a diet or borrowing your sister's favorite cashmere sweater. It is about taking money from people who already pay a more than adequate salary and provide healt...

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