Ryan won't resign after charges against campaign organization

STLToday ^ | 4/4/02

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Gov. George Ryan says he will not resign because of federal charges against his campaign fund and two former top aides.

But he had little else to say Wednesday about the indictments handed down a day earlier, promising only that he would have a statement ``when this whole thing is over.''

[egarvue]

I will hate to see Democrats in total control of the IL state govt.; but if that's what it takes to push the Illinois Republican Party to clean up its filthy corrupt act, then so be it. Not that I'm gonna vote for Blagoshagojagovitch, or however you spell it. But I have to agree with his statement that Jim Ryan stood by and did nothing to investigate corrupt George Ryan.

[Thebaddog]

I heard from a former ASUAT friend that Fitzgerald was brought in specifically to go after Ryan. Only on outsider was considered to have the cojones to go up against the combine, as Kass calls it.

[Thebaddog]

I heard from a former ASUAT friend that Fitzgerald was brought in specifically to go after Ryan. Only on outsider was considered to have the cojones to go up against the combine, as Kass calls it.

[BlackElk]

I hate to see their lives destroyed like this too. If they would give up George Ryan, maybe they do only ten years in the slam. Of course, with the kind of sentence that George Ryan ought to get, that would amount to a life sentence at his age.

Maybe George Ryan would like to invite Fawell and Juliano to leave the GOP like he did with Pat O'Malley because O'Malley was honest enough to go after the George Ryan corruption in the recent primary campaign.

Let's see if the legislature has the intestinal fortitude to impeach Ryan even if his conviction would put Corinne Wood in the governor's office temporarily. She seems about the same as George Ryan: the absolute bottom of the GOP barrel anywhere in the nation. An impeachment would also keep the legislature busy enough to leave our lives, our liberty and our property alone.

What do you call three slimeball RINOs in federal prisone as felons and permanently out of politics? A good start.

[Clemenza]

But Ryan isn't that bad! All the mommies in Naperville, Aurora and Schamburg liked him over that mean man Poshard!

[IncPen]

``We want to know if Jim Ryan was doing that job or not,'' Blagojevich campaign chairman David Wilhelm said.

Funny that David Wilhelm couldn't answer that question when he worked for Clinton....