Our heartiest congratulations go out to Rahm Emanuel and his Chicago mayoral transition team for a new Chicago corruption land speed record.
He was elected mayor on Tuesday, appointed his transition team on Thursday and an ethics violation forced his co-chair to resign on Friday.
The Chicago Tribune tells the sad tale:
A veteran politician Rahm Emanuel named to his mayoral transition team resigned her high-level state job last summer and paid a fine for conducting political business on state time, according to a newly filed ethics report.
Judy Erwin, a co-chair of Emanuel’s mayoral campaign, said late Friday night that she would resign her new post on his transition team after the Tribune contacted her and the campaign. She said she hadn’t informed Emanuel of the ethics violation.
Erwin, the former executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, admitted using her office e-mail and phone while working on a campaign committee for presidential candidate Barack Obama, using staff resources to plan her trip to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and engaging in campaign fundraising activity while on the job, the state’s Executive Ethics Commission ruled in a decision filed Feb. 16…
In an interview with the Tribune, Erwin said she got careless while she was very busy at work, cooperated with investigators and hoped her 30 years of history in state government would outweigh the ruling.
“I’m not corrupt, I’m just careless.” Isn’t that the same one-size-fits-all Democrat excuse Tim Geithner and Charlie Rangel used when they didn’t pay their taxes?
Source: Chicago Tribune
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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It appears that the peole of Chicago have gotten what they voted for. Fraud decit and dishonesty. Old man Daly most be smiling from his grave.
If you are that careless, you have no business in public office. If you are that corrupt, you have no business in public office. And clearly you have no business on the state Board of Higher Education, since you learned nothing in school!
Hey is that dude is wearing gold earrings? He must be a liberal.
What is that they say? "Birds of a feather..." ?
You aren't kidding! That dude with the earrings and big bauble pearl necklace looks like he wants to spit out whatever is in his mouth.
The guy with the gold earrings and the pearl necklace is probably chewing tobacco. It is a guy thing I suppose. Liberal men love being over accessorized I guess :-\
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse"
Lock her up.
Well, there's no big suprise here, is there?
Yeah, she resigns from this post... so what New government post will she now have as she fails upward?
"....as she fails upward?"
Ah yes, the FUMU concept, still alive and well in both the public AND private sector. Usually (but not always) reserved for beneficiaries of Affirmative Action. The quickest way to get rid of worthless human wastes of oxygen who believe they have an ability to accomplish great things, when in reality they go round in perpetual circles and get in other people's way and make tasks more difficult to complete.
And just what is FUMU? It's promoting incompetents to positions of higher authority but outside YOUR chain of command. It's known as a good way to screw with a group in your company/organization that you dislike....
FUMU....Also know as "Fk Up, Move Up."
Way to go, you creepy ballerina!
Are all liberal women in politics, to be politically correct, facially unlovely? Pelosi, Boxer, Snow, Lee, Franks, all of them seem to lack two genes. The smart gene for one, then the "know how to look good with an ugly mug gene."
OOPS! My mistake! Barney Fife isn't a woman. Or is he? Who knows who is the "bitch" in his relationships.
"Are all liberal women in politics, to be politically correct, facially unlovely?"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone.
There is no amount of makeup in the world that can make up for her personality.
The taste of things to come.
"I'm not corrupt, I'm just careless." ???? And what part of that is supposed instill confidence, nitwit? I'd rather you were corrupt, at least then I'd know you were trying to do something, not just get by on your network. Someone please tell me when we won't have to deal with complete shit-headed morons. I can't even make jokes about it anymore, these people are certifiably stupid. The next time I hear a lib jackass say that George Bush was stupid I think I'm gonna squirt blood out my eyes.....I CAN'T TAKE IT NO MORE!!!!!
Business as usual in the Windy City. Is it true that Rahm Emmanual was Robert Rizzo's (City Manager of Bell, CA) mentor?