Jury is in - Ryan guilty on all counts.
Good for you, Chicago. Crooked politicians should be punished EVERYWHERE and their exploits should be made known and their children should walk with shame because their parents were guilty of the highest forms of scumbaggery.
Government needs a good cleanin up, ya know.
Just last Saturday my family and I were discussing whom we were more anxious to see go to jail, George Ryan or Barry Bonds. We’ve just taken a big step toward incarcerating the first party. I hope it stands up on appeal, and I hope he gets Sent Up for Hard Time in the Big House!
Man oh man, did I just piss off my mother.
Through a couple different connections, our family is acquainted with Ryan and a couple of his kids. First name basis type of aquaintance, stopping well short of “friendship”.
Mom sent me an e-mail feeling all bad for him, and spouting about how he didn’t do anything that others haven’t done.
I went off. I don’t care who else did that, HE got greedy, HE got indicted and he never once even tried to defend what he did, he just got indignant and said it was a political witch hunt.
Hope he rots there.
Here, twist that knife a little. Remind her that you’re standing by your value system. You know – the one your mother taught you, when you were a little Bus Boy!
Wait a sec! Chicago is doing more to punish crooked politicos than, say, NY?
Ooops.
Maybe this will start a national trend. (Which can catch a few national leaders, too. Not naming any names. But my view is for a bi-partisan roasting.)
Good deal. Now the prosecutors can finish up their work on Daley.
They’ll dick around with appeals for a while, he’ll do far less than the 20 possible years (due to his age) and all will be forgotten in short order. I bet the sentence is 7, he’ll do half that, and he’ll probably be released early for health reasons.
It’s too bad, too. I was so happy when he started the moratorium on the death penalty. Turns out he was just another cog in the machine. Feh…Chicago and crooked politics. They go together like hot dogs and mustard.
Yippee!!!