Economic Prosperity in Chicago/Illinois Without Graft?

Great Debates
1

Is it possible to create economic prosperity and the resulting pretty planters on boulevards and long overdue L-station rehabs in a city or state without electing:

A mayor who gives city minority contracts to White organized crime figures.
A mayor who built his “tough on crime” reputation on now overthrown death row convictions.
A governor who seems to have looked the other way when employees of his department sold commercial drivers licenses to finance his high pressure requests for fund raising - resulting in an accident that killed an entire family.

Do we really have to trade justice away to get economic prosperity?

2

Are there any other candidates who could do better?

3

Good question - absolutely to the point.

This is why I sometimes don’t vote - unless I feel I can avoid an incredible evil getting in in a close election.