Posted on 03/15/2012 6:36:22 AM PDT by rellimpank
Ten years ago it was March 19, 2002 Illinois Democrats nominated Rod Blagojevich as their candidate for governor. The percentages should have humbled him: 37 for Blagojevich, 34 for former Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas, 29 for former Attorney General Roland Burris. But rampant scandal under Republican Gov. George Ryan had chased him into retirement, and tipped Illinois Democratic in the Nov. 5 general election. On the night of that victory, an emboldened Blagojevich solemnly declared: "Illinois has voted for change."
Change didn't come. On Dec. 7, 2011, a federal prosecutor would crisply synthesize Blagojevich's tenure as governor: "He was corrupt when he took the oath of office. He was corrupt until the day he was arrested."
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Corruption is a time-honored practice in IL and especially Chicago. It's how things get done out there.
With the exception of one elected official, maybe two now I would say everyone elected to office in this state should be on the bus with Rod. It is about the worst bunch of criminals in the history of the democracy
I would bet that Rod is thinking that his sentence will only be 10 months, as that is when Obama leaves office and will probably pardon Rod for keeping his mouth shut!
They protesteth too much. The smarmy white libs benefitted greatly from the Blago reign of crime, it enabled the ponzi scheme known as Chicago. Chicago is a livable city and not a Detroit because of the actions of Blago and Daley who bribed and flattered a large portion of the Democratic voting population either out of the city or bought their votes so the rich developers could gentrify large swaths of the city. Basically they engaged in some very expensive social engineering to save Chicago and to enrich themselves.
“I would bet that Rod is thinking that his sentence will only be 10 months, as that is when Obama leaves office and will probably pardon Rod for keeping his mouth shut!”
I haddn’t thought of that. Here’s hoping “Big Willie” makes Blago his “girlfriend” early on.
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