To provide further proof that many politicians resemble crooks more than any other segment of the populace I point you to the shenanigans of former NC State Rep Michael Decker and his patriarch NC House Speaker Jim Black.  These two, along with their friend M. Scott Edwards, the treasurer of the NC Optometrist’s PAC, commited some of the dumbest rule-breaking you’re ever going to find.  And like most common criminals they did it for chump change, relatively speaking.  My middle-schoolers could come up with a better scheme than theirs, although I assure you that my middle-schoolers have much better ethics than these scabs of society.  Sheesh.