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(Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules http://johnbatchelorshow.com/blog Twitter: @BatchelorShow The state legislatures of Ohio, New York and Illinois demonstrate that Tammany Hall lives on.  Austin Berg @A_R_BERG https://www.wsj.com/articles/larry-householder-ohios-house-speaker-arrested-on-racketeering-charges-11595350062 In Ohio, Federal officials arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and several others on Tuesday in connection with a $60 million bribery case. In New York,  Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison in the corruption case that drove him from power as a judge said she hoped to “send a message to Albany.” And in Illinois, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative House speaker in American history, is embroiled in a federal bribery case involving   utility giant Commonwealth Edison.  Austin Berg (https://www.illinoispolicy.org/author/aberg/) , author of "The New Chicago Way" (https://www.amazon.com/New-Chicago-Way-Lessons-Cities/dp/0809337517/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+New+Chicago+Way&qid=1595350566&sr=8-1) and vice president of marketing at the Illinois Policy Institute says statehouse corruption is rampant around the country and a serious problem that impedes progress and perverts the system and desperately needs to be fixed: Political power and corruption too often go hand in hand. Top legislative leaders in Illinois, Ohio and New York, all of whom have been implicated, arrested or charged for political bribery, make it clear that Statehouse corruption is a serious problem that gets in the way of needed reforms and perverts the system. Politicians focus on accumulating personal power instead of what’s best for the people they’re supposed to represent. States have to focus immediately on ethics reforms, starting by amending the rules that give the House speaker so much power.