A true story, to help you knit your noodles

[struggle4progress]

I once lived in a city, where a woman won the School Superintendent election on a reform-the-system platform

Her campaign was based on claims that the people in charge of the public schools were grifters, who were taking public property to make themselves rich

It was a nice do-the-right-thing-and-feel-good campaign

She won handily and then was re-elected

But within a few years, she was in jail herself -- for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the schools

Was the reformer finally corrupted herself? Maybe. Or maybe she could sniff corruption out because she already knew how to play both sides. And there's another possibility: all her denunciations of other people were simply a way of distracting everybody from her own crimes

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. I vote distraction.

She was dirty when she ran.