Senators: Barack Obama & Dick Durbin
Representative: Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Illinois Governor: Rod Blogojevich (recently arrested)
House leader: Mike Madigan
Attorney General: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Chicago Mayor: Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)
The leadership in Illinois? ........all DEMOCRATS.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago!
Body count in the last six months: 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago versus 221 killed in Iraq
State pension fund: $44 Billion in debt, worst in the country.
Cook County (Chicago) sales tax - 10.25% highest in country.
Chicago school system: rated one of the worst in the country.
Of course, they're all blaming each other. They can't blame Republicans because there aren't any.
...Obama selected outgoing Illinois U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Combine) for the post of secretary of transportation, putting LaHood in charge of Obama’s planned trillion-dollar public works bonanza being sold as a jobs bill.
...What Obama forgot to mention is that with LaHood in charge of the roads, they’ll lead to one place:
Bill Cellini.
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A federal grand jury today indicted longtime Republican power broker William Cellini in the Operation Board Games investigation of corruption in state government.