Lord knows that "South Carolina style politics" ought to be just as much a byword for corruption.
Tell me about it. Thanks to redistricting, I've get to vote in the State Senate race between Jake Knotts whose sole redeeming virtue is he's not a mindless libertarian drone and Katrina Shealy, the libertarian drone who he tried to avoid by having one of his good ol' boy buddies file the lawsuit that caused so much havoc with the primaries. I do so wish I had a third choice. These two are bad enough, Cthulhu might be the
sane choice.
(Note: I don't mind libertarians in general, just the libertarian drones who mindlessly repeat libertarian talking points without really understanding them or their effects because the people paying for their campaigns hold them.)