Posted on 08/17/2012 1:43:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Riiiiight. Like any Rat voters cared whether or not he resigned. Or was indicted for a crime, for that matter. Voting for Rat thugs = standard operating procedure.
This guy had to be flat-out brazen in his corruption to get ousted by Democrats!
Yikes!
Even worse, ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS
They’re kinda like Illinois Nazi’s (It’s a Blues Brothers reference, for those that don’t know)
” the first member to be booted from the chamber since 1905.”
And how many in between 1905 and now deserved the same punishment, but didn’t get it? Was his punishment for getting expelled really for bribery or getting caught?
Any public official that is convicted of straying from their oath and commits felonies needs to lose their pensions, benefits and be ostracized from ever being in government employ, and then they need to face a major prison sentence that is twice as severe as what an average citizen not in government would face.
These staunchly one sided districts need to be minimized (not sure how). Big city politics needs decontaminated and flushed out. When one party has total control of a district it is never good for honest government. Term limits would help keep the government from going putrid.
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