They're having to scramble more to keep this influence peddling under the radar, ... Is that progress?

I think there's now a fig leaf over some of the corruption, ... Where there was naked influence peddling before, it's a little more hidden now.

I think the issue of developers' influence is going to explode in the elections in Montgomery County next year, and our campaign finance laws have clearly failed to restrain their influence.

Progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet.

Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do the best to climb, and get to him.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.