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even Mr.McDonnell agreed the state’s ethics rules needed updating.is taking a different tack.The argument: He did nothing different from President Barack Obama and former governor Tim Kaine, reports Josh Gerstein at Politico.The President routinely participates in corporate events which lend credibility to his major benefactors, invites benefactors to events at the White House, allows his photo to be taken with benefactors, and includes benefactors in policy discussions with senior administration officials.Politics is replete with examples of major benefactors receiving more substantial government benefits than anything suggested here.The New Little Black Dresses For Sale York Times Jonathan Martin and Michael D.Shears explain the Virginian mindset.restrictions on what gifts family members of Virginia officeholders can accept or any limits whatsoever on the source or size of campaign contributions to politicians.has for centuries fancied itself a haven of good government led by public-spirited citizens dating to Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson.up to date is long overdue.to face criminal charges.One of Virginia’s Ways has sometimes been used to justify the other: The state needn’t bother itself with tough public ethics laws, the self-satisfied argument went, because of the self-evident virtues of its exemplary political culture.McDonnell is Exhibit A for the vacuity of that point of view.If federal prosecutors are correct, he put himself squarely on the wrong side of the law even in Virginia’s permissive environment.Amy Davidson at The New Yorker is offended by the pettiness of the couple’s graft and their sense of entitlement.Like the maddest sort of sex scandal, the greed is both unbounded and imaginatively constrained.It’s like hearing about a politician sexting or seeing a prostitute and asking oneself, He gave it all up for that?rather than serious money, or that he wasn’t, say, accepting a bid from an unsafe cement contractor which would allow a 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