but add a breathe right strip, and pow! it instantly opens your nose up to 38% more so you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do. sleep. add breathe right to your cold medicine. shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. as the mystery intensified over the growing bridge scandal, last night our own columbo, one rachel maddow stepped forward with a novel and intriguing theory as to what the motivation for the whole thing was. rachel pointed out that both ft. lee mayor mark sokolich and governor christie don t seem to think the lane closings were
island. i had a little more experience with rhode island. what s your case for florida? oh, chris, you got to be kidding me. i mean, the past 35 years we ve averaged one conviction for political corruption every week. we ve led the nation that s pretty good. five out of the last 12 years, chris. i mean, we had a mayor in miami beach convicted not for one instance of bribery but 41 instances of bribery. in tampa, the county commission was so corrupt that there wasn t one who was convicted of bribery, there were three at the same time. you also had the story of the florida senate president, i really like this one, the florida senate president yes, sure. so he got tell me his story. well, his story is that he wrote a book report about the florida state legislature. never published in any form, anywhere at all. and the state paid him $152,000 which he never was punished for. i mean, a lot of the worst corruption in florida goes
rich first rate quality of corruption. watching the scandal unfold, seeing the accompanying references to the sopranos got us to thinking where bridge-gate ranks and where new jersey ranks in the most corrupt states in the union. chris christie made his name in new jersey politics as a hard charging u.s. attorney with his office getting convictions and guilty pleas from 130 public officials. he was the guy who was cleaning up new jersey or at least that was the image. now, it wasn t easy to narrow town which states have a legitimate claim to being the most corrupt. make the case for new york, where corruption is common place in the state capitol, or rhode island, where the mayor was forced out of office forced to do a felony conviction only to win re-election five years later then get convicted again this time for racketeering. but after some tough choices, we managed to narrow it down to the final four of corruption. there is, of course, new jersey which saw a senator convicted
spectrum of places, you have places that aren t very corrupt and places that are very corrupt, it s unclear whether it s something about the laws or constitution intuition intuition l culture of the place. louisianaens don t want good government, they want good entertainment. i grew up in a state where everyone knew edwin edwards was corrupt. i grew up as a kid knowing edwin edwards was corrupt. he was our governor but he gave us some money. we had books. we liked it, you know? and until you shift the paradigm of people, until we re out of a parade mentality here, you know, i m a civil rights attorney. i find the humor in all of this because i have to. otherwise i wouldn t be able to survive. but i understand just as the six kids died in illinois, we have problems when we have this kind of corruption. so it s shifting the paradigm, and the mindset of people with their tolerance for this. yeah, there are, i mean, that s the other thing is
for the second day in a row, as many as 300,000 families in west virginia are being warned to stay away from the water. do not drink it. do not cook with it. do not wash clothes in it. do not take a bath in it. that is a warning you don t hear often in this country. don t drink the water. not only don t drink it, don t even touch it. don t do anything but flush it down your toilet. that is precisely the warning that s in effect right now for a nine-county swath of west virginia currently under a state of emergency. this after a chemical leak from the coal treatment plant into a river near the state capital. the chemical, 4 methycyclohexamethanol is used in coal and was leaking from tank on thursday. see the stuff as it comes