Chicago Politics: Blagojevich Is 4th Out Of Last 5 Illinois Governors To Get Indicted

  •  December 10, 2008

Some fun facts from Tom Elia:

This makes for the fourth out of the last seven elected Illinois governors to be indicted since 1960 (Otto Kerner, Dan Walker, George Ryan, and Rod Blagojevich) … since 1972, 28 Chicago alderman have been convicted of crimes. If this number was extrapolated to the US House, it would be as if over 240 congressman had been indicted in the same period.

So do you have to be a crook to get elected in Illinois? Or does getting elected there just turn you into one?

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  • http://Array Lance

    I think it’s more of a status quo thing

  • Dino

    But Zig, there’s sodomites ALL OVER in Chicago! You’d have to wear iron underwear to keep from getting sodomized!

    I can just see someone from this blog living in a big city. it would eat them ALIVE. All those scary non-white people! And poor ones too! OH MY GOD!

    Best you stayed in whatever boring suburban hell in the middle of a boring conervative state you’re living in now, Ziggie.

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  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

    Four of the five are/were Democrats. Two of the three NOT indicted or convicted are Republicans. Not statistically significant (I did the 2 sample p test), but interesting.

    And the Chicago aldermen? I would guess almost all are Democrats. Few Republicans get into office in Chicago.

    The cause? Probably not liberal politics per se, else Wisconsin and Minnesota would be hotbeds of political crime, too. I think it’s more or less a cultural thing with Chicago politics–the rough & tumble that’s accepted there leads people to think they can get away with anything. Something like “We’re going to make this work, whether the law allows or not.”

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    I interviewed out there in the Windy City. The pay and the firm name were excellent, but Chicago is freekin cold.

    Cold weather, for the right reasons, I can deal with, but what really killed the deal was the sordid state of Illinois law.

    It ignores the Constitution.

    You confront the same sort of we don’t need no steekin Constitution attitude in New York, New Jersey, Maryland and California.

    Other states admittedly have their problems, with only Vermont and Alaska, of all places, following the Second Amendment to any close degree.

    The point is, any State that purports to substitute its own will for that of the Supreme Law of the Land, right out of the gate, is arbitrary and capricious.

    By showing at the very least, ignorance of the Constitution and more likely, contempt for it, they signal to everyone that the place is run by the corrupt, by tyrants, even if only tyrants of a single courtroom, school district, homeowners association, town or state.

    The only surprise here is that the corruption may actually be prosecuted.

  • JPGR

    Great post Zig. As I read Rob’s entry I just couldn’t help but wonder…how many of the ones NOT indicted on that list were just lucky enough to get away with it?

    It does seem, more and more, to be a culture of corruption.

    I wonder if anything like this will ever turn up against Obama…it’s a rough but close-knit crowd, it is hard to believe there isn’t at least something small that could be uncovered about ANYONE in Chicago politics. They do seem to protect one another until it’s their ass on the line.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    “By any means necessary.”

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