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Chicago Political Corruption!

December 10, 2008

Most people don’t have a very high standard placed on politicians. And politicians from Louisiana or Illinois have an even lower threshold for honesty and integrity. Why, you can take a 100,000 bribe, stuff the money in your freezer and pretend all is legal when you get caught. And then get re-elected. No big deal. I can’t imagine what arrogance, stupidity, or both that allows a man under investigation, as Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, was and then still say the things he did- on tape!

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Doesn’t the fact that the last governor is in jail say something? The fact three Illinois governors have gone to jail doesn’t cause one to clean up their act? Or is corruption so ingrained in Illinois that one cannot help themselves? Just look at a couple of Illinois politicians as an example.

• Former Alderman Arenda Troutman pleaded guilty this year to mail fraud and income tax evasion after federal officials accused her of accepting bribes for a project in her ward. She was busted on tape in a sting about the fictitious development, allegedly asking, “What do I get out of it?” and adding, “Most aldermen, most politicians are hos.”

• Former City Clerk James J. Laski was charged in January 2006 and later convicted and sent to the federal pen for accepting thousands of dollars, as well as obstructing justice, in the city’s infamous Hired Truck scandal, in which private truck operators were paid for city work. Multiple defendants went to jail and had to repay millions in the scandal, which was broken by the Chicago Sun-Times.

• Former Gov. George Ryan gained national prestige for putting a moratorium on the death penalty, but that didn’t keep him out of prison after the feds convicted him in April 2006 of steering state contracts to friends for bribes, as well as using his office for political gain. Sen. Dick Durbin is seeking a commutation of Ryan’s 6½-year sentence from President Bush.

• Robert Sorich, the former patronage chief of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, and three other city officials were convicted in July 2006 of using their positions to award jobs to Daley supporters and campaign workers.

• Former Cicero, Illinois, Town President Betty Loren-Maltese and six others were convicted in a $12 million scam. One of the six was a reputed Mafia boss in the town.

One can’t help but wonder how Barack Hussein Obama came out of it so clean. Or, has he? Will the Rezko land deal come back to haunt him? And what about Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel? Man oh man! What’s up with politics in Shy-town, the Windy city, the Daly dungeon?

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Election News 

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