In yesterday's episode of TPMtv we announced the official nominees for this year's Golden Duke Awards (in honor of disgraced and incarcerated Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham) in six categories to 'honor' outstanding achievement in public corruption, betrayals of the public trust and generally outrageous behavior. Readers sent in nominations and the TPM staff chose five nominees for each six categories.

You can see the video announcement below. But we've now also put together the official 2007 Golden Dukes nominee page, with each category, the nominees in each category, accompanying video as well as the text of the winning reader nominations (i.e., their argument for why their choice should be nominated).

In categories like Best Testimonial Trainwreck, you just can't evaluate without seeing the awful truth preserved in video. So you'll definitely want to check it out.

Readers whose nominations were chosen will be notified by email tomorrow. But if you just can't wait to know whether or not you won check out the page to see if you won.

So, go over, take a look, consider all the layers of mucktitudinous evidence and send us in emails telling us which of the five nominees in each category should win the Golden Duke.

The nominations are now in the hand of our distinguished panel of judges and we'll be announcing the winners on December 31st.

And if you want to see the official announcement of the nominees, feast your eyes on the video below ...