[NU Sports] Way OT: Blagojevich

[johnadeg at comcast.net]

The best comment from the news conference came from an FBI agent who, when asked if Illinois was the most corrupt state said, "if it isn't it is giving it a hell of a run at it".

Then there was  Bath House John Coughlin,  a Chicago Alderman who got a bill passed requiring all cemeteries to have a ten foot cement wall around them.  It was a mere  coincident that he owned a cement plant.

John DeGroat

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From: "Beamsley, Jeff" <Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com>
> My favorite line from Mayor Daley (the first) was uttered when the story
> broke that the city had moved $3M of insurance to Heil & Heil in
> Evanston two weeks after they hired a young John Daley. "If I can't help
> my sons, then they can kiss my ***...If a man can't put his arms around
> his sons, then what kind of world are we living in?"
> 
> To paraphrase, it's good to be the mayor.
> 
> Jeff 
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> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
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> Louisiana has had 2 governors sent to jail Edwards and Leche, and one
> sent to an insane asylum Earl Long, who, when asked about a corruption
> investigation  of his administration, answered "I don't know nothin
> about nothin, especially  that"
>  
>  
> In a message dated 12/9/2008 2:11:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> sjtruog at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > Can  any other state match our list of convicted governors
> 
> :) - well, we  haven't been at it as long out here in Arizona, but we're
> giving the old  states club a run for its money in corruption (ditto
> with Alaska for the new  kids and corruption).
> 
> And of course, there's always  Louisiana.
> 
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
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