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How Big Is the Graft Problem in Illinois? [Dan Collins]

They have to build cases for it.

12 Replies to “How Big Is the Graft Problem in Illinois? [Dan Collins]”

  1. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    Many of the developments in Operation Board Games never attracted national headlines.

    Funny, that.

  2. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    I also see in the WaPo that the estimated crowd size for O!’s coronation-apotheosis shindig has been cut in half.

  3. Big Dan says:

    In the middle of the third-to-last paragraph of the 4-jump story:

    Obama is said to be considering keeping Fitzgerald in his job even though the coveted spots typically turn over with a new administration.

    The coveted spots typically turn over? Do they mean the Attorney General spots? Do they mean that firing 6 in the second term, after keeping them on for 6 years, is NOT typical?

    You’d think there was an agenda or something the way WaPo knowingly hides this fargin obvious fact.

  4. N. O'Brain says:

    I think I just figured it out:

    Obama wants to turn the whole country into Chicago.

  5. Mr. Pink says:

    Yes Chicago is such a wonderful place, especially the beautiful churches that preach unity and love.

  6. Mossberg500 says:

    We are the Grove Parcians we’ve been waiting for! Free Rezko!!!

  7. Bob Reed says:

    It seems like Chicago land is a corruption theme park…

    Bet remember, O! was the virgin in that harem!

  8. Slartibartfast says:

    I can haz frog mart ching now?

  9. nikkolai says:

    Fitzmas IS a pleasant surprise.

  10. mongo78 says:

    Many of the developments in Operation Board Games never attracted national headlines.

    Heh. I spent the first 30 years of my life in Illinois, before escaping to sunnier climes. Ever since the ascension of The One to the Democratic nomination, I’ve been bitching to one and all about how he was going to make Chicago-style patron/client sleaze the new national standard.

    The day the Blago story became national, a guy I talk politics with pretty regularly, and who has heard me talk about Illinois corruption ad nauseum, hurried up to me and said, “I wish I’d known about all of this before the election”.

    It’s like it’s not even reality until it comes out of the goddamn TV.

  11. 11B40 says:

    Greetings:

    Kind of interesting that the writer describes the woman who wore the “wire” as a “grandmother of six” in the opening paragraph when the more pertinent description would have been a “hospital executive.”

  12. Love your post!! Finally someone got it right!!! Would you mind if I put a blogroll link back to your post? :)

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