Mike174, have you ever read or heard of a politician admitting to payola?  They never do.  When it is revealed that they accepted thousands of dollars for their political campaigns from companies doing business or wanting to do business with the government, they always say the contributions had nothing to do with their votes favoring the contributor and, of course, we are expected to believe them.  The unfortunate thing in this state is that corruption is not taken seriously or aggressively investigated and no one ever gets indicted and instead get reelected.