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Thanks! Salon's unusual choice of words about him got me curious, and a Google search did the rest. Shame this guy is "retiring."

"An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere." -- Mark Twain

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It is a shame since he was such an unlikely candidate to get elected in the first place. The GOP in Illinois isn't much different than the dems. Although, to be fair to George Ryan, he didn't raise taxes like Chicagovich (blagojevich).