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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chicago; corruption; cultureofcorruption; democratcorruption; democrats; emanuel; erwin; ethicsviolation; judyerwin; liberalfascism; liberals
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
He thinks he can’t lose.

After Chicago decided to ignore their own law by letting him run can you really blame him for thinking that?

21 posted on 02/26/2011 9:06:51 AM PST by Michael.SF. (Going to Charlotte for the barbecue is like going to Minneapolis for the gumbo - John Reed)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

If this nation EVER elects ANYONE from that political cesspool known as ILLINOIS, we deserve whateverthehell happens to us.


22 posted on 02/26/2011 9:09:29 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: ConservativeStatement

Whatever happened to Rezko and Blago ?


23 posted on 02/26/2011 9:24:05 AM PST by 1066AD
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To: onevoter

I’m wondering about this development.

I had the impression that the Gay Blade Rohm jumped ship when our Marxian Mook lost the House in the last election. I speculated that Rohm realized by then that association with ‘bam would be a severe liability in his political future. I wondered if enmity had developed between Rohm and others in ‘bam’s white house. I speculated that Rohm’s bolt was a pragmatic decision, growing out of some realization that ‘bam and associates had become too radical even for him.

Now I wonder if he departed with ‘bams blessings, or even at his behest. Considering the way he waltzed into office, I now suspect that he was on an errand to secure and maintain the base and guard ‘bam’s official history. Discovery of contradictory or embarrassing details could destroy ‘bam’s prospects, even open him to prosecution.

Of course it could be both.


24 posted on 02/26/2011 9:40:22 AM PST by tsomer
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To: 1066AD
...Yeah...and what about the SEIU chieftain who was murdered in his Oakland CA house last month......crickets....
25 posted on 02/26/2011 9:48:24 AM PST by spokeshave (WTF....the only thing 0bambi's investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

and electing another crook to office to grab tax money....


26 posted on 02/26/2011 10:24:48 AM PST by FreedBird
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To: ConservativeStatement

“....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 cooperated with the investigation by the executive inspector general, reimbursed the state, agreed to pay a $4,000 fine and promised to never work for the state again. She resigned Aug. 15....”


27 posted on 02/26/2011 11:43:46 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Rahm’s chances of making it to the WH are -1 to infinity.


28 posted on 02/26/2011 11:44:58 AM PST by yup2394871293
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To: yup2394871293
".....The inspector general investigation found that Erwin repeatedly violated the state prohibition on political activity between July 2008 and February 2009 and "co-opted" her staff by involving them in her activities.

"The atmosphere for IBHE employees must have been heavily colored by Ms. Erwin's political activity on the job," the ethics board said. It found "particularly troubling" her explanation that she made a campaign contribution to a state representative who was the chairman of the higher education appropriations committee: "This suggests that she was responding to a real or imagined pay to play incentive within state government."

29 posted on 02/26/2011 11:51:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: bmwcyle
To all cites. the Democrats do not have your beet interests.

Nor do the Republicans, except those that are Tea Party members.

30 posted on 02/26/2011 11:52:52 AM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: Night Hides Not

First they should try a real Republican. NYC failed there.


31 posted on 02/26/2011 11:56:18 AM PST by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Getting paid by the state to run a political campaign! It’s good to be the king!


32 posted on 02/26/2011 12:00:04 PM PST by yup2394871293
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To: ConservativeStatement

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

33 posted on 02/26/2011 12:08:26 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: USSR Didnt Fall
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?

We're just helping his current crisis along ~ wouldn't do to waste it now, would it?

We should always be there in his times of crisis -> ALL of them.

34 posted on 02/26/2011 12:18:52 PM PST by 4woodenboats (If an illegal alien is allowed to become POTUS, why would he think he has to obey a judge?)
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To: 1066AD

Here’s an update on Blago

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703408604576164482637742672.html


35 posted on 02/26/2011 1:52:15 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

This corrupt DIM has no worries. She will be appointed as some sort of behind the scenes advisor or Czar role in Chicago. Chicago voters deserve what they asked for. Boycott the city. Starve the beast.


36 posted on 02/26/2011 3:24:26 PM PST by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Double Entendre’....


37 posted on 02/26/2011 3:28:39 PM PST by Vendome (DonÂ’t take life so seriously... YouÂ’ll never live through it.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

They hired Lewinsky?!


38 posted on 02/26/2011 3:35:05 PM PST by rfp1234 (Le Parti du The'. Ne marchez pas sur moi!)
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To: Lazlo in PA
Look what I found


39 posted on 02/26/2011 6:20:28 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Dick Bachert
If this nation EVER elects ANYONE from that political cesspool known as ILLINOIS, we deserve whateverthehell happens to us.

Sesquicentennial for some people sayin' that.

You do remember Obama saying that any leader who orders troops to attack citizens needs to go, yes? For some of us, words have consequences.

40 posted on 02/26/2011 9:05:50 PM PST by bIlluminati (Don't just hope for change, work for change in 2011-2012.)
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