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Colorado's Ridiculous, Disturbingly Corrupt 1904 Election, Part One: Let's Jump Off The Train

Ridiculous History

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Colorado's Corruption Crisis

"This was a level of corruption pretty close to like the whole Tammany Hall, you know, vibes like in Chicago," he says. The investigation amounted to 200,000 pages of evidence over 2000 witnesses and the Democratic now governor Adams is in office, but he can't do anything because anytime he does something, he gets attacked for allegedly fixing the election. "The state government became pretty ineffective ground to a halt."

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