WA State Govt. Rated One Of “Best” Vs. Corruption (POLL)

According to a new study released grading the 50 states on transparency, accountability and lack of corruption, Washington State is in the top five--in a good way.

The Center For Public Integrity teamed up with several other policy groups to study the 50 states to see who has the most and least 'corrupt' state governments.  These are the catagories used for the ratings (From Fox News Story):

Reporters in each state researched 330 corruption risk indicators across 14 government categories, including access to information, campaign finance, executive accountability, legislative accountability, judicial accountability, budgeting, civil service management, procurement, internal auditing, lobbying disclosure, pension fund management, ethics enforcement, insurance commissions, and redistricting.

 Surprisingly, Washington got a score of 83, or a B-, and finished in the top five.  No state received an A rating.  New Jersey got the highest score, largely because of numerous strong reform efforts put in place that have prosecuted dozens of corrupt officials and cleaned up state departments.  Much of the credit goes to Gov. Chris Christie.   While states such as North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming got D's of F's, critics of the study point out that some states operate efficiently and don't have need to extensive "corruption protection" programs.

  We might also point out that two of the states who scored in the top 5, California and Washington,  both have record setting defecits.   But at least according to this study, we're apparently not corrupt.
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