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Operation Tennessee Waltz

Philly blogger (and Tennessee native) Joseph Logan of publicOrgtheory has been writing about an issue that few of us in the Philly (or national) blog scene have paid attention to: a political scandal in Tennessee which led to the arrest on bribery charges of four sitting legislators in Nashville who, as Joseph points out, were "literally perp-walked out of the state capital building."

Why should we care about a political scandal in Tennessee? Well, perhaps because we in Philadelphia have own own pay-to-play issues to deal with; perhaps because at least one of the politicians involved had aspirations for national office; and perhaps because, as Joseph notes, the development of this story has ramifications for the "evolving relationship between blogs and MSM."

I created the company that

I created the company that bribed the legislatures.

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