ILLINOIS in general :
Senators: Barack Obama & Dick Durbin
Representative: Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Illinois Governor: Rod Blogojevich (arrested)
Illinois House leader: Mike Madigan
Illinois Attorney General: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
And Big Al’s favorite city (today)
The leadership in Illinois is all Democrats.
Crime is doing well in Chicago:
Body count in the last six months: 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago
With a mere pittance of 221 killed in Iraq
(Military are safer in Iraq than civilians in Chicago)
Financially the plunder is flowing nicely:
State pension fund - $44 Billion in debt, worst in the country.
As is Taxation:
Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax - 10.25% highest in country. (Look it up).
And the “Don’t make em too smart” Sytem is also going well:
Chicago school system - rated one of the worst in the country.
Makes ya wanta buy tax free Chicago Municipal bonds don’t it !!!
When was the last time ILLINOIS had a Governor who hasn’t ended up in prison??
According to the Chicago Sun-Times in the last 30 years no less than 79 local elected officials have been convicted of a crime, including three Illinois governors, one Chicago mayor and 27 of the city’s aldermen.
