Name your state's most embarrassing elected official.

[Stuart G]

191. In Illinois there was a fellow named "Paul Powel"....this is old, but worth a laugh..

He died unexpectedly. So they went to clean up his office. In many drawers, there were stacks of money that were kept in...shoe boxes He has become known as "Shoe Box Paul Power"...It added up to thousands of dollars.
...Evidently, Mr. Powel was taking bribes for this or for that, and had been doing so for years. He was Secretary of State in charge of drivers licenses.

If you want to know more, you can read about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Powell_(politician)

...................................look under this heading............................:

Death, scandal and shoeboxes