Illinois Has Long Been For Sale

RealClearPolitics on Yahoo ^ | 12/10/08 | Dennis Byrne

[Main Street]

[stylin19a]

...And he would be the fourth of the last eight Illinois governors to be convicted felons.

Walker has to be considered 1 of the 4. Dan Walker did not get convicted for anything he did in office.

[Joe Boucher]

It ain’t just Chicago and Illinois.
In 1974 a friend of mine from Brooklyn, N.Y. worked with me at the Pentagon.
I asked him waht he was going to do when he got out of the Army?
John Pondoliano told me he was trying to raise $32.000.00, the money would be used to buy or bribe his way on to the N.Y. Police force. Said he’d have job security for life and he would be able to make that back in no time.

[MahatmaGandu]

Illinois is corrupt because it is a one-party state. Period.

[tired1]

Funny!

[Clock King]

“But Barack is Black and Cute! That’s all that matters!”

[RightResponse]

“But Barack is Black and Cute! That’s all that matters!”

"Ditka! Dat's all dat matters!"

[skimbell]

The last Governor that went to the slammer here was a Republican.

[syriacus]

While rolling over in his grave, Abe Lincoln was heard to say,

"Blago's a TYPICAL corrupt Illinois Democrat."

[muawiyah]

There is absolutely no way anyone in this country can plead ignorance of how corrupt Chicago politicians are.

They are corrupt. They are all criminals. Nothing they do surprises anyone who's ever taken a look at the place more than a second.

Compounding the problems you normally run into with a crooked politician, the Chicago politicians are also inherently evil. Their support of abortion and commercial trade in human embryos arises out of their interest in seeing people die, and the more who die, the more they love it.

If they could they'd sell their grandmothers, their own children, their wives, their brothers and sisters, into slavery.

[muawiyah]

Correction ~ the article says “There’s no evidence...”. It should say “No one has yet publicly reported evidence....”

[ScottinVA]

“appears to have stunned the nation”

Not really. People expect that kind of activity from Illinois. This is nothing new — I’m surprised it took this long with Blago.

[ScottinVA]

Blago has nothing to worry about, though. The One will buy his silence with the promise of a full pardon.

[ScottinVA]

“The last Governor that went to the slammer here was a Republican...”

...who talked, acted and governed exactly like a liberal democrat.

[TexasCajun]

Even old-time Louisiana politics don't come close to the ongoing Chicago & Illinois corruption.

[sarasota]

It reminds me of the Godfather and the methods used.

[Ebenezer]

Pelican State ping

After reading this column, Louisiana may not be the most corrupt state in the Union.

[Ebenezer]

ping

At least in Puerto Rico, Governor Acevedo was spared some embarrassment when he was allowed to turn himself in and be arraigned without handcuffs. The feds were not as generous to the Governor of Illinois.