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Q: What do you call a Chicago politician going to prison?
A: A good start.

No it doesn't, we elected his Lieutenant Governor.

Blogo knows too much. If he goes to prison it's a death sentence. If I were him, and thankfully I'm not that stupid, I would make sure the story gets out.

And incredibly enough, Obama, who's political career started in and came from Chicago is somehow immune from this corruption.

As for Blago....wait til they shave his head when he's processed.

He'll get five years and be back on talk radio in Chicago after that.

Does this mean that the people of Chicago have had enough of the corrupt Democratic party political machine

Absolutely not. As Pretzel_logic noted they elected his Lieutenant Governor in his place and the dems are now raising taxes and driving all industry out of the state. It's so bad the two options exchanges in Chicago are looking to leave the city.

Emanuel replaced Daley and it's just more of the same. The same leftist policies making the city a cesspool of violence and crime.

Illinois is going nowhere, except maybe bankruptcy if we are lucky.

Hank

They will only have to cut 2 or 3 hairs and he will be bald. The rest is wraparound.

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Personally I am betting he wont spend more than 6 months in jail.

"Does this mean that the people of Chicago have had enough of the corrupt Democratic party political machine that has run their city for decades?"

I love it when Michael doesn't even read what he posts -- which is often.

Basic civic lesson 101 -- Blagojevich is governor and has nothing to do with "running Chicago" you dweeb. Chicago isn't even the state capital.

And here's a little meme-buster you overlooked, Buster.

... If he does end up in prison, Blagojevich would follow a path well-trodden by Illinois governors, including Blagojevich's predecessor, former Republican Gov. George Ryan -- now serving 6½ years in a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.

Ryan's Song?

The corruption scandal that led to Ryan's downfall began over a decade earlier as a federal investigation into a deadly crash in Wisconsin that killed six children of Rev. Duane "Scott" Willis and his wife, Janet. The investigation revealed a scheme inside Ryan's secretary of state's office in which unqualified truck drivers obtained licenses through bribes. As the AP wrote: "The probe expanded over the next eight years into a wide-ranging corruption investigation that eventually reached Ryan in the governor's office."

In March 2003, Scott Fawell, Ryan's former chief of staff and campaign manager, was convicted along with Ryan's campaign fund on federal charges of racketeering and fraud. Former deputy campaign manager Richard Juliano pled guilty to related charges and testified against Fawell at trial. The investigation finally reached the former governor, and in December 2003, Ryan and lobbyist Lawrence Warner were named in a 22-count federal indictment. The charges included racketeering, bribery, extortion, money laundering and tax fraud. The indictment alleged that Ryan steered several state contracts to Warner and other friends; disbursed campaign funds to relatives and to pay personal expenses; and obstructed justice by attempting to end the state investigation of the license-for-bribes scandal. He was charged with lying to investigators and accepting cash, gifts and loans in return for his official actions as governor. In late 2005, the case went to trial.

Yeah -- it's a DEM thing. What an idiot.

Hey Art..Blago was a Chicago area congressman. The arrogant jerk rarely even went to Springfield. His Chicago ties and obviously his way of doing his job is very relevant to the new mayor, the President, his top adviser Valarie Jarrett, Jesse Jackson Jr., Barry's Real Estate buddy Tony Rezko, et al. Imagine if this was 2003 and this much scum was coming out of Austin and Dallas? You guys wouldn't be able to get a good nights sleep you'd be so excited.

Amazing how the writer obviously went to lengths to get the word "Republican" in the article while scrupulously avoiding the word "Democrat."

"Amazing how the writer obviously went to lengths to get the word "Republican" in the article while scrupulously avoiding the word "Democrat."

The mentally ill seem easily amused by misdirection.

Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the article, left out by LaPrarie:

The broke and impeached ex-governor told reporters that he and his wife, Patti, "have to get home to our little girls and talk to them and explain things to them and then try to sort things out." His two daughters are 8 and 14.

Uncharacteristically, the 54-year-old Democrat had little more to say, adding only that he was stunned by the verdict.

Amazing how some people never bother to click on the link and read the article themselves... but just go ahead and spew BS.

Well Art it seems that the DeomcRAT part was buried down in the last graph. If it had been a Republican, that would have been the headline and the first word of the lede sentence.

Art W, it sounds like you are unhappy here. Maybe Thor can help you with that.

Chicago is the defacto nexus or everything in Illinois no matter what our mentally challenged friend art w says. Chicago was bought for Kennedy. Daley beat the hell out of protesters. It is a corrupt democrat machine and is to this day. ww

Chicago, Cook County and Illinois will never, ever change. The democrat/union complex is too powerful.

While Blago made national news there are many past aldermen, county officials and connected thugs like Rezko who have been convicted in the past. They just didn't make national news.

As is with organized criminals, union pension fund skimmers and drug dealers, the rewards for political corruption far outweigh the risk of getting caught.

Someone else is always ready and waiting to take their place.

Alexi Gianoulias was one waiting in line but surprisingly, he lost his bid for the US Senate to RINO Mark Kirk.

Since 1960 there have been 9 Illinois governors, not counting the incumbent whose term isn't over.

5 of the 9 were Republican, 55%
4 of the 9 were Democrats, 45%

If both parties are equally corrupt then we should expect a breakdown of those convicted governors to follow party distribution of 55%(R) vs. 45%(D).

However,
1/5 or 20% of the Republican Governors were convicted.
3/4 or 75% of the Democratic Governors were convicted.

This means that there is a 75% probability that a present day Democrat Governor in Illinois will be convicted of corruption and a 20% probability that a Republican Governor will be convicted.

So yes ArtW I would say that it is probably a Dem thing.

"Well Art it seems that the DeomcRAT part was buried down in the last graph. If it had been a Republican, that would have been the headline and the first word of the lede sentence."

The word "democrat" appears in paragraph 5. The word "republican" appears in paragraph 8.

Democrat politician convicted?

I sense a disturbance in The Force.

Democrat politician convicted?

I sense a disturbance in The Force.

Too bad that Barry is not sitting on the opposite side of the squad car on his way to Joliet.

"The word "democrat" appears in paragraph 5. The word "republican" appears in paragraph 8."

Wart can be so nuanced when he's on the kook aid.

Art W:

You do realize that Chicago and its metro area account for 3/4 of the population of Illinois, right? So that claim about the dirty Chicago political machine having nothing to do with Blago is naive at best...

If Blago were black he would probably be sitting in the White House right about now.

Its the Chicago way.

.... Does this mean that the people of Chicago have had enough of the corrupt Democratic Party political machine that has run their city for decades ...?

Now don't you be holding your breath while waiting for that fine fairy tale to come true.