When a political party is in power, it is a crime for the party in power to use the organs of government to cement their party’s hold on power. Nevertheless Republicans are expert at doing just that and, more often then not, they get away with it. A perfect example occurred during the Bush Regime, when Republicans ordered US attorneys to file bogus charges against Democratic candidates on the eve of elections and fired the ones who refused. Every once in a while, one is actually convicted.

A once rising star among Republican Pennsylvania legislative leaders was convicted Tuesday on all 40 corruption counts against him related to a scheme to use taxpayer money for campaign purposes, a scandal that also ensnared the former speaker of the state House of Representatives. Former Rep. Brett Feese, a former chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, and Jill Seaman, his ex-aide and co-defendant, were convicted in what prosecutors described as an illegal scheme to spend millions of taxpayer dollars through the hiring of consultants and the use of state employees to develop high-tech election campaign tools. The jury of six men and six women reached their verdicts after deliberating for a week following five weeks of testimony. Feese, who served six terms in the House representing his Lycoming County district, and Seaman, 59, of Dauphin, were the first Republicans to stand trial among 25 people whom the state attorney general’s office has arrested since it began investigating the Legislature in early 2007, while Republican Gov. Tom Corbett was the attorney general… [emphasis added]

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What these two did is no different from what Republicans are doing all across the country. Efforts to catch them need to be ramped up.