And they are doing it in a malicious fashion, with corrupt methods – paying politicians and using their political influence.
The Salt Lake City bribery scandal erupted late in 1998 and exposed the secretive, corrupt methods that cities employed to win the Olympic Games.
In an interview last fall, Balsa Brkovic, the nation's leading literary figure and author of the best-selling novel "Paranoia in Podgorica," sounded almost equally as excited by Montenegro's first Olympic medal, a silver won last summer by the women's handball team, as he did outraged by its prime minister's allegedly corrupt methods of governing.
Benbelkacem noted that the ruling party will resort to the "same corrupt methods" to re-elect Bouteflika.
The final tally was 55-28 in favor of the resolution "That corrupt methods and practices were employed in the election of William Lorimer to the senate of the United States from the state of Illinois, and that his election therefore was invalid".
Historian Patrick Geoghegan observes that the methods the government employed were not unusual for the time, and Donal McCartney observes "it would be old-fashioned, too nationalist, and much too simplistic to hold that the act of union was carried mainly because of the corrupt methods employed by the government".
The project has claimed some success in reducing murders, but violent and corrupt police methods have been criticised.
Mubarak is old, he is corrupt, his methods are not a secret, but he is no fool.
"A personally clean and honest man, William Lorimer was clearly a product of corrupt political methods and unworthy to hold a seat in the United States senate," the Seattle Post-Intelligencer commented.
The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, created in the 1950s to break the mob's grip on the docks, became its own bastion of lawlessness, employing some of the same corrupt, self-serving methods as the gangsters it was supposed to pursue, investigators said Tuesday in a scathing report.
