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(as distinct from the worst politics, political and social norms, etc.)
I'd go:
1. Wisconsin - Paul Ryan (US Representative), Scott Walker (Governor)
This gruesome twosome is really a juggernaut when it comes to combining soullessness and ineffectiveness. Both are self-described budget hawks, yet have continuously furthered policies that are fiscal disasters and have championed policies such as drug testing welfare recipients which has cost exponentially more than it saved in every state that has tried it.
Walker, despite justifying his giant upward distributions of wealth, reckless tax cuts, and union-busting and wage-suppressing efforts on the basis of job growth, has caused Wisconsin to drastically lag behind the rest of the country in job creation since his tenure began.
And Ryan, despite spending 8 years during Obama's term bitching about national debt and advocating a balanced budget, just spearheaded a tax bill that has been universally panned by economists as fiscally irresponsible and which is predicted to balloon the debt.
2. Kentucky - Mitch McConnell (US Senator), Rand Paul (US Senator), Thomas Massie (US Representative)
These demonstrate the full spectrum of GOP economic illiteracy. McConnell, arguably the singularly most detrimental figure to US policy since 1990, is as corrupt as any politician in US and made waves early in his political career for successfully filing lawsuits to deregulate campaign finance and allow his donations to flow in absent reporting on where and who they came from. And they have flowed in heavily, as McConnell is one of the Senate's richest members, despite hailing from one of the nation's poorest states.
Paul and Massie on the other hand are full-fledged Ron Paul-libertarian ideologues and seem to actually believe in their party's fraudulent fiscal policies. These three figures really do raise the question of whether you would prefer an idiot or a thief advocating on your behalf.
3. Kansas - Sam Brownback (Governor)
He's the only politician listed, but who needs anyone else? Kansas' Ayn Rand tax cuts project was a massive failure: so much so, that it forced the unthinkable to happen, as Kansas Republicans voted to reinstate state taxes to their previous levels. That's right. Brownback's genius plan of massively cutting taxes on the rich, and gutting social services and entitlements for the poor, for the sake of job creation was so shitty that Republicans raised taxes and somewhere Ronald Reagan shed a tear (which quickly evaporated in a sea of flames).
4. Missouri - Eric Greitens (Governor), Roy Blunt (US Senator), Ann Wagner (US Representative)
Roy Blunt is famously one of the most corrupt and least transparent politicians in the game: he's basically Mitch McConnell is McConnell were three feet shorter, handsomer (somehow, good lord), and looked like Jack Nicholson's Joker from Tim Burton's Batman movie.
Meanwhile, Greitens is probably the most hilarious con artist in recent US history not named Donald Trump. Actually, fuck it, Greitens is worse. He ran a cartoonish "true conservative" campaign in which he shot guns and flexed his muscles while talking about weeding out corruption. Meanwhile, Greitens has become notorious as the largest recipient of dark money campaign contributions in Missouri history and has passed a slew of laws making it harder to get a bead on who is paying him to rob Missouri tax payers and bust unions.
Also, get this: Eric "true conservative" Greitens was a Democrat for the first 35 years of his life and only switched over to the GOP when he realized their voters were fucking morons and he would have an easier time climbing the political latter and could get rich while doing it. This cunt has no soul and everyone who has met him can attest to as much: he's vying for a run at the US presidency and stockpiling a treasure chest of corporate money to fund it. And he's so sleazy and morally bankrupt that I think he has an immensely bright future. I didn't include a picture of Greitens because that playboy bitch doesn't need any more publicity.
Check below if you'd like to see one of his hilarious campaign ads.
5. Texas - Louie Gohmert (US Representative), Rick Perry (Sec. of Energy), Ted Cruz (US Senate)
Good grief, you know it's a shitty list when Ted Cruz is by far the least shitty person in it. For what it's worth, Texas has generally been a pretty productive state. Turns out that having more resources than most countries and a robust pool of undocumented labor can present quite the groundswell.
Rick Perry is easily the most unqualified Secretary of Energy in US history, as his predecessors were Nobel Laureates, MIT and UC-Berkley professors, and all-around geniuses, and Rick Perry was a 2.1 GPA student in his "Animal Science" Bachelor's program. Gohmert is certifiably insane: most recently, he passed a resolution to dismiss Robert Mueller, but he's most famous for his stance on Al-Qaeda placing sleeper cells fetuses into Mexican women and then smuggling them across the border so that the fetuses (feti?) can become anchor baby terrorists. Ted Cruz.....hell, all things considered, he's an okay guy.
Honorable mention: Louisiana - Bobby Jindal (ex-Governor, ex-US Representative), Bill Cassidy (US Senator, serial murderer)
Jindal is in tight running with Walker and Brownback as the most disastrous governor in recent US history. Despite touting himself a Reaganite budget hawk, much like the two aforementioned former frustrated Turbo Tax users, Jindal actually took an economically prosperous and balanced-budget Louisiana (wtf, right?) and parlayed its budget surplus into massive state debt, once again alongside the promise of job growth that never came. Cassidy has murdered somewhere between 10 and 300 young women and performed weird experiments using their corpses. I have ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF of this, but I just have a feeling.
Looks like you want to kept it partisan.
How many from IL sent to jail?
How many from NY caught forging absentee ballots?
Cali - where you don't have to tell someone you have HIV and they just recently passed a law that you had to place a towel under your bare ass in restaurants because in parts of Cali clothes in public are optional?
So many worthy candidates and you had to go with ideological shit.
