CULTURE OF CORRUPTION? “Booker’s stake is a bribe.” “He gets money, the bribers er ‘donors’ or ‘partners’ get control and access over public policy, at the expense of the voters. This is blatant graft and of a type that used to be common in the late 19th century, which in so many ways our politics and economy seem to be moving back to.” Interestingly via the influence of the “progressive” party.