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First blow to Emanuel team
ChicagoTribune ^ | February 26, 2011 | Rick Pearson and John Chase

Posted on 02/26/2011 8:21:38 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

A veteran politician Rahm Emanuel named to his mayoral transition team resigned her high-level state job last summer and paid a fine for conducting political business on state time, according to a newly filed ethics report.

Judy Erwin, a co-chair of Emanuel's mayoral campaign, said late Friday night that she would resign her new post on his transition team after the Tribune contacted her and the campaign. She said she hadn't informed Emanuel of the ethics violation.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chicago; corruption; cultureofcorruption; democratcorruption; democrats; emanuel; erwin; ethicsviolation; judyerwin; liberalfascism; liberals
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Change! Hope!
1 posted on 02/26/2011 8:21:43 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Larry Sinclair?...


2 posted on 02/26/2011 8:23:01 AM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Watch this creep position himself for a run for the White House. He thinks he can’t lose.


3 posted on 02/26/2011 8:25:25 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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To: ConservativeStatement
No change, really.

Erwin, the former executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, admitted using her office e-mail and phone while working on a campaign committee for presidential candidate Barack Obama, using staff resources to plan her trip to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and engaging in campaign fundraising activity while on the job, the state's Executive Ethics Commission ruled in a decision filed Feb. 16.

The ethics commission said she...reimbursed the state, agreed to pay a $4,000 fine and promised to never work for the state again.

4 posted on 02/26/2011 8:25:32 AM PST by La Lydia
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What’s a dead fish going to do as there are no honest pols in the whole State?


5 posted on 02/26/2011 8:25:34 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: ConservativeStatement

What’s the old saying? “She ain’t ready for reform yet”.


6 posted on 02/26/2011 8:26:24 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Bringing children to America without immigration documents is child abuse. Let's end it.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Blow, the guy won the election please can we concentrate on the important stuff not all this small garbage that will not amount to a hill of beans?
There is no law in this nation, only for the real Americans who love this country.


7 posted on 02/26/2011 8:28:00 AM PST by USSR Didnt Fall
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And so it begins....Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.


8 posted on 02/26/2011 8:28:21 AM PST by The FIGHTIN Illini (Illinois - So glad you're my FORMER home!)
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To: ConservativeStatement
She said she hadn't informed Emanuel of the ethics violation.

Probably none of them thought it was anything unusual.

9 posted on 02/26/2011 8:32:20 AM PST by glorgau
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Chicago Mayor is a far cry from POTUS. It is even a stretch he could win IL Gov. Rahm won in a corrupt Rat machine city. His opponents were a collection of losers and wack jobs. He was the sanest choice to vote for in that election.


10 posted on 02/26/2011 8:37:19 AM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

To all cites. the Democrats do not have your beet interests.


11 posted on 02/26/2011 8:37:45 AM PST by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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She should fit right in.

The definition of an honest Chicago politician is one that stays bought!

12 posted on 02/26/2011 8:41:03 AM PST by Redleg Duke (I DO NOT BELIEVE THE LIBERAL MEDIA!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

It is the ethics violation that probably caused Rahm to want her on his team in the first place.


13 posted on 02/26/2011 8:47:36 AM PST by killermosquito (Buffalo, Detroit (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Once they found a court that would overturn his “not a citizen” issue, I gave up on the belief that Rahm would not be able to buy his way into this position. This man is nothing more than an “enforcer” and it is frightening to watch him buy his way into power. Once the Chicago Machine put Obama into office, the floodgates opened.


14 posted on 02/26/2011 8:48:17 AM PST by onevoter
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

“Watch this creep position himself for a run for the White House. He thinks he can’t lose.”

He KNOWS he can’t lose.


15 posted on 02/26/2011 8:49:03 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (The way to beat a terrorist is to terrorize him.)
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Watch this creep ...

Somehow "creep" seems like too nice a word to describe Emanuel.

16 posted on 02/26/2011 8:51:03 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: ConservativeStatement

Riddle me this Batman..How can Emanuel, nominally a Jew, have supported Obama, a Muslim demonstrated hater of all things Israel(Except their campaign contributions and votes of course.)?


17 posted on 02/26/2011 8:51:32 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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What a Surprise! The real surprise is that she is stepping down. ( Of course, just like Obambi’s minions, they will ‘step down’ publicly) The next big news announcement will be that bears actually poop in the woods!!


18 posted on 02/26/2011 9:00:29 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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To: Don Corleone
Riddle me this Batman..How can Emanuel, nominally a Jew, have supported Obama, a Muslim demonstrated hater of all things Israel(Except their campaign contributions and votes of course.)?

"Progressivism" is thicker than blood...

19 posted on 02/26/2011 9:06:02 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Being a Republican in Chicagoland must be like being a downed US flier in Nazi Germany.

Its just survival and hiding by any means until you’re most likely captured.


20 posted on 02/26/2011 9:06:04 AM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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