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**LClan439** · 12-23-2008, 09:58 PM

Short answer: he got elected by being a "reform" candidate from the Democratic side after the previous Governor, Republican George Ryan, went to jail on 18 counts of steering state business to friends and associates for bribes.

Underachiever!

But one also needs to add the following. The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, was involved in both cases - Mr. Ryan before and Rod Blagojevich currrently. And the attorney for Mr. Ryan happened to be a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District - James Thompson. Mr. Thompson was the prosecutorial force that removed Governor Otto Kerner (D), many years ago, and it gave him a platform on which to become Illinois Governor, a position in which he served approximately 14 years. What comes around, goes around and around and around.

Illinois politics is corrupt on both the Republican and Democratic sides - a point often obscured in national discussions which seek to reduce it all to just machine politics in Chicago. People surveyed in Chicago pretty much said "Meh, politics as usual."

12-23-2008, 09:58 PM	#2
LClan439 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 459 Senior Member	Short answer: he got elected by being a "reform" candidate from the Democratic side after the previous Governor, Republican George Ryan, went to jail on 18 counts of steering state business to friends and associates for bribes. Underachiever! But one also needs to add the following. The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, was involved in both cases - Mr. Ryan before and Rod Blagojevich currrently. And the attorney for Mr. Ryan happened to be a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District - James Thompson. Mr. Thompson was the prosecutorial force that removed Governor Otto Kerner (D), many years ago, and it gave him a platform on which to become Illinois Governor, a position in which he served approximately 14 years. What comes around, goes around and around and around. Illinois politics is corrupt on both the Republican and Democratic sides - a point often obscured in national discussions which seek to reduce it all to just machine politics in Chicago. People surveyed in Chicago pretty much said "Meh, politics as usual."
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