A corporate executive fired for trying to buy a County into voting on a public-bidding contract in Texas? Delaware County, NY, has a better solution for this "problem" - no public contracts at all

In 2015, the New York State Comptroller published an audit of Delaware County, New York, indicating that for 30 years going back, public contracts were not submitted in that county to public bidding, as required by law.

As far as I checked by now, the practice continues, audit or no audit, FBI investigating the County's murky financial dealings or not.

Delaware County has a point - why deal with a paper trail that can expose corruption when no paper trail makes it easier to conceal corruption?

For example, recently in Texas it was reported that a high-ranking corporate executive may have been fired after an attorney complained about a sweet deal offered by his corporation to the decision-making county officials (a private stock offer) while the corporation was participating in a contract-bidding with the county.

And you know who the corporation fired?  Of course, the whistleblower who reportedly admitted to the practice.

So, the best solution is for Texas counties (and counties around the U.S.) to follow the example of the Delaware County, New York.

No public bidding, and no paper trail = no problem.