do I REALLY have to say it???
Posted on 05/20/2005 2:19:35 PM PDT by LdSentinal
do I REALLY have to say it???
This week the gov. was bragging about his testiculer virilty.
What a loser. And he has big political asperations. (meaning the White House).
Does she have the ovarian femininity to fight these charges?
Yah know if we'd just turn the governors residence into a jail this state would run a lot smoother. Everyone who moves in winds up in jail. They could just run the whole state from jail at the outset and frankly I don't think anything would be any different.
"This town ain't ready for reform." Paddy Driscoll - 1920's
Paul Powell - Secretary of State - died in 1970 - when they cleaned out his apartment, there was a closet full of shoe boxes, and each shoe box was full of $100 bills.
Mike Royko, from the book Boss, "The official slogan of the Chicago City Council should be, "Ubi Mea", which translates to "Where's Mine?"
And the beat goes on. This is a relatively minor scandal, as Illinois politics goes, but you have to keep up tradition.
That's Paddy Bauler
Never could tell them apart. When people found out I was from Chicago, they used to ask if we told Irish jokes. The automatic response was, "No, we elect them."
You wanna know how JFK was elected? It goes back that far.
Even if Kennedy lost Illinois, he still would have won the election.
Going back to 1960, the following governors have been indicted, Kerner, Ogilvie, Walker, and Ryan. Since 1960 only TWO governors have not been indicted. That is a record which is without precedent. This present governor looks to be headed to join company with the preceding majority.
I don't believe Ogilvie was ever indicted.
He was indicted although the case might not have went to trial. It had to do with some kind of race track deal that he was involved with. The indictment dealt with actions that occurred after he left office. Since in Illinois, politics is a criminal brotherhood which encompasses both so called parties, any time any political hack gets indicted, you can be sure, that he is not innocent. The most amazing thing about Georgie Boy Ryan was that no elected pol in either party ever called for him to resign, mainly because they exploited his political weakeness stemming from the corruption in his Secretary of State's office to get favors and deals from him.
Ogilvie was known as an honorable and honest man. There was corruption by others during his admin, but I can find no record he was ever indicted- during or after he held office. The race track stuff was Kerner.
Only for a century plus. Hell at one time the Outfit had there own Congressman. Sam Giancana's son-in-law was his chief of staff.
Remember the Chicago City Council was once known by the endearingly warm name "The Grey Wolves."
It is even worse since of the two who weren't convicted one served forever and a day, Big Jim Thompson the Republican who got there by sending crooks to jail.
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