Unbelievable

***DON'T JUST SIT THERE...DO SOMETHING!

Call the City Council Coordinator's Office & leave a message for your alderman that you don't want them voting for the Mayor's $$$ for the Maisenbacher House:  789-2151

Don't know who your alderman is?  Go here to find out and then call!  

***Mark Brown goes OFF on Durbin for being a political hack:  After a week of getting pounded by the public and the press, Durbin thought it over and decided that George Ryan has suffered enough, no matter that the people of Illinois informed him they believe otherwise.  Durbin conceded to reporters that his sympathetic remarks last week toward Ryan were met with an "outpouring of emotion" from across the state and that it had been "overwhelmingly negative."

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And, the Trib is against Durbin's hairbrained request:  For uncounted decades, the Illinois culture of political sleaze has thrived on raw displays of clout and stubborn unwillingness to see public corruption as a crime worthy of meaningful punishment. Ryan is unquestionably guilty of that heinous corruption. He is just as unquestionably worthy of meaningful punishment.

As secretary of state and as governor, Ryan helped orchestrate and enhance that notorious culture of political sleaze. Nine innocents, six of them children named Willis, paid the highest price for that corruption: They died in crashes caused by truckers who bribed Ryan's office to get their driver's licenses. The broader list of victims, though, runs to 12 million: Ryan cheated every Illinois citizen of honest governance. He endangered every driver on this state's roads. He put his cronies and family members first.

***And the Daily Herald:   That's a key point. George Ryan never thought he'd be caught. Never thought he'd be convicted. Never thought he'd go to prison. And now he is playing the sympathy card. And Durbin and Gov. Rod Blagojevich and former Gov. Jim Thompson all have been sucked into the cause. We urge President Bush not to join in the pity party.  George Ryan wants to spend time with his family. We think he should continue to reflect in prison on the fact that a bribery scandal in the secretary of state's office he led resulted in the deaths of the six children of Rev. Scott and Janet Willis.   Our sympathies lie with them.

***nuf said


 

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