A slimy ex-CEO, recently tried for improprieties that robbed thousands of people of their retirement funds ( in an apparent reference to the Enron scandal ), decides to spread a little " goodwill " around the Keys.

* 1972 – Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

The church was caught up in the 1976 Koreagate scandal which involved Korean political figures trying to influence Democratic members in the United States Congress.

** Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.

The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D. C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.

As a result of the scandal the Democratic Party became popular in Wyoming for a time, winning the governorship in 1895 and taking control of both houses of the state legislature during the two elections after the events.

Plans for the Watergate break-in at Democratic headquarters were discussed at the Key Biscayne Nixon compound and, as the Watergate scandal unfolded, Nixon spent more time in seclusion there.

Social Democratic Party Defence Minister Norbert Darabos was quoted as saying that the remarks were " unacceptable ", " a veritable democratic-political scandal " and that he had " insulted the victims of National Socialism ".

The election was marred by members of the Republican Party who organized the 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal which disrupted Democratic efforts.

The Recruit scandal of 1988 had already eroded public confidence in the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ), which had controlled the Japanese government for 38 years.

In 1978, a Democratic Congress was determined to curb the powers of the President and other senior executive branch officials due in part to the Watergate scandal and related events such as the Saturday Night Massacre.

* 1972-Watergate scandal: Five men arrested for the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D. C.

In his third term, Koch's popularity was shaken after a series of corruption scandals, touched off by the Donald Manes suicide and the PVB scandal, which revealed that he had acceded to the requests of corrupt political allies, most notably Queens Borough President Manes, Bronx Democratic party official Stanley Friedman, and Brooklyn Democratic boss Meade Esposito, to stack city agencies with patronage appointments.

The New Democratic Party suffered badly in the campaign due to the drop in support for the provincial New Democratic parties over the preceding decade and amid a scandal in 2000 facing British Columbia's NDP Premier Glen Clark who was forced to resign as Premier.

The Watergate scandal was still fresh in the voters ' minds when former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, a Washington, DC outsider known for his integrity, prevailed over nationally better-known politicians in the Democratic Party Presidential primaries in 1976.

The Watergate scandal began during the 1972 presidential campaign between Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and President Richard Nixon.

In 1992, Lincoln defeated Alexander ( who had become a major figure in the House banking scandal ) in the Democratic primary, by a margin of 61 to 39 percent.

Dinkins was elected in the wake of a corruption scandal that involved several Democratic leaders in New York City.

At the time the Watergate scandal broke to the media, Nixon " barely noticed " the reports of a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters.

The discovery quickly made headlines on the Drudge Report, the Student Press Law Center and other media outlets due to the similarity to the bugging of the Democratic National Headquarters in 1972 that brought down Nixon's presidency in the Watergate scandal.

His campaign attracted national attention when he became the first Democratic candidate to air television ads attacking his opponent and the Republican congressional leadership for the Lewinsky scandal.

Berkley announced that she will run for the United States Senate in April 2011 to succeed John Ensign, who resigned amidst an ethics scandal .. She secured the Democratic nomination in the June primary and will face Senator Dean Heller in the November elections.

In particular, the successful entrapment of Graham Riddick and David Tredinnick in the " cash for questions " scandal, the contemporaneous misconduct as ministers by Neil Hamilton ( who lost a consequent libel action against The Guardian ), Tim Smith, and the convictions of former Cabinet member Jonathan Aitken and former party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer for perjury in two separate cases leading to custodial sentences damaged the Conservatives ' public reputation.

The CDU won in some important state elections but was hit in 2000 by a party donation scandal from the Kohl years.

A spy scandal forced Brandt to step down as Chancellor while remaining as party leader.

Support for his leadership was eroded even further by his refusal to sack the Minister for Air Peter Howson in order to defuse the scandal, fuelling criticism from within the party that Holt was " weak " and lacked Menzies ' ruthlessness.

Alan Reid says that within the party the reversal was blamed on Holt's mishandling of the VIP planes scandal.

In a time when party discipline was not as strong as it is today, once Macdonald's culpability in the scandal became known he could no longer expect to retain the confidence of the House of Commons.

Perhaps as a direct result of this scandal, the Conservative party fell in the eyes of the public and was relegated to being the Official Opposition in the federal election of 1874.

In mid-1987, the Bofors scandal broke his honest, corruption-free image and resulted in a major defeat for his party in the 1989 elections.

The government may also seek to have a bill introduced unofficially by a backbencher so as not to create a public scandal ; such bills may also be introduced by the loyal opposition — members of the opposition party or parties.

Though the Federalists wanted neither Jefferson nor Burr to be president, Hamilton convinced his party that Jefferson would be a lesser political evil than Burr and that such scandal within the electoral process would undermine the new constitution.

Kenneth Kaunda had earlier retired from politics, but after internal turbulence in the party, due to the " Zero Operation Plan " scandal, he returned, replacing his own successor Kebby Musokotwane.

The party financing scandal became public in 1999, when it was discovered that the CDU had received and kept illegal donations during Kohl's leadership.

Peres succeeded Rabin as party leader prior to the 1977 elections when Rabin stepped down in the wake of a foreign currency scandal involving his wife.

Helmut Kohl served as chairman until the party's electoral defeat in 1998, when he was succeeded by Wolfgang Schäuble ; Schäuble resigned in early 2000 as a result of a party financing scandal and was replaced by Angela Merkel, who remains the leader of the CDU to this day.

Shortly after, in October 2000 Álvarez resigned after a scandal related to presidential bribes in the Senate ( the President's party refused to support or investigate the accusations ), so the Alliance ( and even the FrePaSo ) effectively broke down.

His expulsion created even more instability in a party which was constantly embroiled in scandal and internal strife.

Partly because of a food scandal that broke out just before the 1999 elections, the VLD became the largest party in the country, obtaining over 22 % of the vote in Flanders.

* CDU secret party donations scandal (" Parteispendenaffäre "), twice:

At this point, a corruption scandal involving Vladimiro Montesinos broke out, and exploded into full force on the evening of 14 September 2000, when the cable television station Canal N broadcast footage of Montesinos apparently bribing opposition congressman Alberto Kouri for his defection to Fujimori's Perú 2000 party.

The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup.

After Wilson lost a leadership challenge in the wake of a personal scandal in a bitter three-way race, the party was led by Gordon Campbell, who became Leader of the Opposition after Wilson's convention defeat.

In 2011, the Sunday Herald Sun's James Campbell revealed an alleged " hacking scandal " involving journalists at The Age who were accused of illegally accessing the computers of a political party.

Despite Miki's personal popularity with the public, the Lockheed scandal reflected poorly on the party, which lost its overall majority in the 1976 election to the Diet and had to make deals with minor parties to remain in power.

Harcourt resigned as premier in February 1996 as the result of " Bingogate ", a scandal in which an NDP member, David Stupich, used money raised by a charity bingo to fund the party.