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I refuse to be angry at any fellow citizen who is appalled that a " convicted " felon can return in glorious triumph to Providence City Hall- with national news media glitz and all. But I also think well intentioned newspaper editors like Ed Achorn operate with a very narrow -even elitist-concept of corruption. The fact is the majority of voters perceive THE SYSTEM itself as corrupt-and this devastates their lives far more than puny individual corruption. Is a bought and sold judge - bought legitimately on the FREE MARKET- on a higher moral plane than a shady politician like Cianci ? Could Cianci's real crime only be that he refuses to play the game by Harvard Law School standards ? And so the Providence Journal recommends to their readers Jorge Elorza. Each of the three candidates for governor of Rhode Island, Raimondo, Fung, Healey, thinks that the other two are captives of " special interests ". Is that not a polite way of saying they are legitimately corrupt ?

Also some great citizens have run even for president as " convicted felons ". Remember one Eugene V. Debs, the old socialist crusader ?

Also there is the Judeo-Christian concept of redemption to reflect upon.