[flowerplough]

Seven years ago, Ryan, then Illinois attorney general, had the misfortune of having the same last name as George Ryan, the crooked Republican governor who later was indicted and sent to prison in the license-for-bribes scandal. They're not related, but George Ryan's disgrace splashed over the GOP.

Too many Ryans in Illinois politics - is either of these the one with the the Star Trek ex-wife sex club deal? The one who put Barack Obama in the Senate?

[fieldmarshaldj]

That was Jack Ryan. He didn’t put Zero in the Senate, the Combine put Zero in the Senate when they ran out an excellent anti-Combiner reformist incumbent in Pete Fitzgerald. The Combine had Jack Ryan’s divorce records unsealed and ran him out of the race. The “allegation” against Jack was that he wanted to have sex... with his OWN wife. The fact that his divorce records were unsealed in the first place was the real crime.