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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Every politician in ''[[Sin City]]'' is this [[Turned Up to Eleven]]. Case in point: Senator Roark. He's so corrupt that he is perfectly willing to allow his son to rape and murder little girls, going so far as to protect him from honest detectives.
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* Greg Stillson in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dead Zone]]'' regularly uses illegal methods, such as blackmailing businessmen to finance his campaigns, and intimidating whistleblowers with thugs. However, he's very charismatic, constructing an highly likeable public persona.
* Littlefinger from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' certainly qualifies; the brothels he owns are nothing compared to the fact that he's {{spoiler|made frequent sexual advances on his barely teenage [[Creepy Uncle|niece-by-marriage]] and [[Parental Incest|semi-adoptive daughter]]}}.
* High Ridge and company are the spitting image of sleazy politicians in [[Honor Harrington]]. Not only are they, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|sleazy]] they are stupid and they dump Manticore in a new war so clumsily without trying. Their incompetence is so great that it is proof of course that they had no intention of doing so. If they had actually wanted to renew hostilities, [[Sarcasm Mode|Manticore would have remained at peace.]] But their combination of selfishness and stupidity nearly brought their country to ruin.
**Eloise Prichart, President of the Manticoran's [[Worthy Opponent|rivals]], the Havenites, found more then a few of these on her own team. Her Secretary of State was the worst of the lot being not just sleazy but treasonous.
* In the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'', the more brutal dealings of more, well, ''interesting'' times have devolved into more or less normal dealings of politicians. For instance in ''Miles in Love'' a [[Succession Crisis]] that might once have been solved with an assassination or a little civil war is cheated at with an attempted mugging. As the bad guys desire to render the candidate unfit to have heirs (by the obvious method) it is bad enough. But they are not trying to ''murder'' him, at least.
** More normal is favor trading and attempted blackmail. The first is fairly harmless of course (either a count agrees to vote on another's pet project or he doesn't). The second can lead to a threat to accuse the Emperor's counselor of murder and either adultery or sexual harassment (depending on the wife's degree of cooperation). Thus by implication threatening to dishonor a woman who was not even involved in politics as a mere collateral damage.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* All the politicians in [[Blue Bloods]] give off a vaguely uncomfortable scent and are shown doing things like [[Nepotism]], overpandering, or simply haggling over things that shouldn't be haggled. But they usually also have more-or-less of an intention to do right by the public (however they interpret doing right), and if they like power, well everybody gets paid for their job.
* Pawnee City Councilman Bill Dexhart of ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' fits this to a T, complete with sex scandals, religious and social hypocrisy, and incredibly obvious sleaze, to which everyone is completely oblivious because he's so good looking (and because nobody cares about local politics).
* More or less averted (!) in ''[[Yes Minister]]'': Even at his pandering lowest, Jim Hacker still understands right and wrong and has a sense of duty to his constituents and the British people. He's more pathetic than despicable in his (often half-baked) attempts to win popularity. As his wife put it, he's a "[[wikipedia:Whisky priest|whisky priest]]" who recognizes that what he's doing is wrong and still feels bad about it.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|Mayor Quimby]] is a very good example of this.{{context}}
** As is Senator Mendoza. No, not ''[[House of the Scorpion|that]]'' Senator Mendoza.
* As shown in the episode ''The Voting of the Doomed'', [[Invader Zim|Zim]] is definitely a Sleazy Politician when it comes to winning the class president election.
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