committed what's been considered as far worse corruption; yet, he only received 6 1/2 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ryan
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Yet his Republican predecessor
committed what's been considered as far worse corruption; yet, he only received 6 1/2 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ryan "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow |
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Party doesn't matter.
Its Illinois politics.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Ed Zachary!
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wrong - party ALWAYS matters
Media all over the country like to say that "Chicago politics is corrupt", meaning "Demnocrats are corrupt". There's plenty of RepubliCANT corruption all over the state, but since the RepubliCANTs threw in the towel in Chicago and Cook County they get to be corrupt while staying under the radar. And by flying their corruption low to the ground they don't get noticed too much by the Chicago media and are ignored by the national media.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow |
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If I want to show D corruption
I'll show Philly. Illinois politics...it's its own genre.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Dude, it's not 1960 anymore.
Party affiliation does NOT matter. If the Party platforms were 100 degrees apart in 1960, they are 0.00001 degrees apart today. And that's a difference not worth quibbling over.
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Blago gets 14 years.
- (mmoffitt)
- (7)
- Dec. 7, 2011, 03:27:31 PM EST
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
-NT
- (beepster)
- (6)
- Dec. 7, 2011, 03:32:28 PM EST
Yet his Republican predecessor
- (lincoln)
- (5)
- Dec. 7, 2011, 04:30:20 PM EST
Party doesn't matter.
- (beepster)
- (4)
- Dec. 7, 2011, 04:56:02 PM EST
Ed Zachary!
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- Dec. 8, 2011, 09:25:08 AM EST
wrong - party ALWAYS matters
- (lincoln)
- (2)
- Dec. 8, 2011, 10:15:27 AM EST
If I want to show D corruption
- (beepster)
- Dec. 8, 2011, 10:17:23 AM EST
Dude, it's not 1960 anymore.
- (mmoffitt)
- Dec. 8, 2011, 01:05:29 PM EST