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Derwood
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 posted 11 Dec 2008 8:15:30 AM
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LOL, Those crocked Politicians.
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posted 12 Dec 2008 3:24:56 AM
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posted 12 Dec 2008 8:30:05 AM
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posted 12 Dec 2008 10:57:27 AM
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posted 12 Dec 2008 4:26:41 PM
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If only?
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posted 12 Dec 2008 5:45:53 PM
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I take it you really like the guy. 
It should come as no surprise that there are no honest politicians
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posted 12 Dec 2008 7:42:32 PM
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Sheriff, I don't know the Man personally. But it boggles my mind how Cook County in Chicago can have so many crooked Politicians.
I mean c/mon. Look at the political history of Chicago.
http://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/corruption-something-in-the-geography,2188/
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posted 12 Dec 2008 7:50:43 PM
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28141995/
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posted 12 Dec 2008 7:53:17 PM
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Its persistence was documented in Sept. 7, 2006 by the Chicago Sun-Times, which reported that at least 79 current or former Illinois, Chicago or Cook County elected officials had been found guilty of a crime by judges, juries or their own pleas since 1972. The paper provided this tally of the tarnished: three governors, two other state officials, 15 state legislators, two congressmen, one mayor, three other city officials, 27 aldermen, 19 Cook County judges and seven other Cook County officials.
The article noted that so many aldermen had been jailed that the newspaper ran a front-page-story in 1991 when the year passed with none being indicted or convicted.
Serving time
The ranks of imprisoned pols include three former Illinois governors — George Ryan, Dan Walker and Otto Kerner Jr.
Ryan, a rare Republican in the heavily Democratic state and Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s predecessor, is serving a six-year prison sentence after being convicted in April 2006 on racketeering and fraud charges. A decade-long investigation began with the sale of driver's licenses for bribes and led to the conviction of dozens of people who worked for Ryan when he was secretary of state and governor.
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posted 12 Dec 2008 7:57:28 PM
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Chicago, with its long history as a center of vice and organized crime, has had its share of official graft.
One of the most notorious alleged recipients was never convicted of any crime.
William “Big Bill” Thompson, who served as mayor from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931, was the last Republican to serve as mayor of the “City of Broad Shoulders.” He returned to office the second time with the support of gangster Al Capone, pledging to clean up organized crime in the city but instead targeting reformers.
Upon his defeat in 1931 the Chicago Tribune leveled the harshest accusations against Thompson in an editorial:
“For Chicago Thompson has meant filth, corruption, obscenity, idiocy and bankruptcy,” the newspaper said. “.... He has given the city an international reputation for moronic buffoonery, barbaric crime, triumphant hoodlumism, unchecked graft, and a dejected citizenship. … He made Chicago a byword for the collapse of American civilization."
Upon his death, two safe-deposit boxes in his name containing nearly $1.5 million in cash reportedly were discovered.
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posted 12 Dec 2008 9:10:41 PM
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Well, you poke a politician and dirt comes out.
Don't have to go far, just poke Bush or Clinton. Obama is no different either.
Illinois had a history of serious crimes, as far as I know a few very VERY rich people made their moneys on stuff like alcohol prohibition. And IMHO chicago "mobsters" are a tip of an iceberg, if you just poke around a little - they got their booze from Canada, which is a Royal (British) colony basically, who let it be smuggled into US. And we are not even talking about illegal drugs here.
And I really begin to wonder what funny legal stuff is going on for centuries now, stuff that some politicians know and real Joe Public has no idea about. Stuff like Joe doesn't own his own land, or that Joe doesn't own his house. And who owns U.S. "public" land. Or that Joe is forced to pay taxes that go to a pot that nobody is accounting for, and that is used for all sorts of crooked purposes.
Even here in Pennsylvaniya former mayor Street's brother is arrested on charges of handing contracts out.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-155124102.html
You touched it, it stinks. 
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posted 8 Jan 2009 1:45:27 AM
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Who ever had the impression that all politics/politicians in the US are clean??? America's always been kind of corrupt - politicians here are (usually) just extra savvy about covering their asses and not getting caught! And Chicago? Not a big shocker at all... it was practically run by the mob in the early 20th century (and some time before too)! Chicago gangsters were the politicians back in the day...
Frank Nitti, Al Copone, Jake Gusik, St. Valentine's Massacre anyone? 
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