It’s not just the big panhandle cities. All the cities/towns have their own corrupt system in place. It’s just not near as malignant as in the larger cities. Amarillo wants to be austin, Amarillo and Lubbock have large college age populations and too many people in the M/O area only care about the oilfield. As long as the money is coming in and they can buy their toys and take their vacations, they don’t care about how the local government works.