It's nice that Indiana House and Senate leaders finally seem to be serious about ethics reform, but House Speaker Pat Bauer has to go and spoil the moment with a statement so absurd that at first it seems like an attempt at surrealist humor:
"I do not believe there is one corrupt legislator in the state of Indiana," Bauer said after a committee voted 10-0 to approve the ethics bill he authored. "I don't know of any corrupt lobbyist, and I'll let the governor speak for himself, but I actually think he is not a corrupt governor. This is not based on corruption; this is based on a little more confidence in the process."
Not one, Pat, not a single, solitary one? And I'm sure the governor is grateful for your support in saying you "actually" think he's not corrupt.
