John Ashcroft's Skeleton Closet
This self-righteous former Missouri governor considers himself a moral crusader, but he has more than his share of petty corruption scandals from his past as Missouri governor:
- Declared "economic emergency" to push through an 18-mile, $140 million freeway right to a major contributor's property
- Used state employees for his re-election campaign
- Received (and didn't report) a favorable deal on a boat from a contributor who got $1 million in Missouri state contracts
- His attorney general went to prison for converting state property to his own.
Editor's note: we never finished the Ashcroft page because he dropped out so quickly. But here are a couple of sources:
- a web site that is obviously anti-Ashcroft but seems to have a lot of original documents and articles on line. Lot's on the freeway issue.
Ashcroft's Freeway Scandal
- a story in the very liberal though reasonably factual magazine Mother Jones
Mother Jones Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1998
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