The question: What is a name that will forever be synonymous with the words: crook, cheat, scumbag, disgrace, corrupt and a fraud.
He was so bad that not a single senator in the Illinois Senate was able to bring themselves to vote nay on removal from office.
It prompts me to ask if any amount of money is worth getting caught, led away in handcuffs and being summarily removed from the top office in your state. Not only that, but getting barred from ever holding office again (a political death penalty if you will). Greasy Rod cannot even become the dog catcher of Skokie, Illinois.
And for good reason. Senate seats are not for sale. They are not to be given away for the highest bribe. Senators should be free of any external influence and being indebtted to a governor does not make them so.
Greasy Rod made a mockery out of the power granted to a governor to pick a senator in the event of resignation by another senator. He brought out the ugliest side of politics. The kind of side that honest hard-working people shun and detest about government.
The most pathetic spectable was the governor's attempts to stay in office by doing a bit of a PR circuit. He should have resigned right away for the good of his state and faced the music. He would have come out a lot more dignified. The unrepentent nature of the ex-governor has ensured that any sentence handed down will be a lot more severe than had he just acknowledged his wrong-doing.
All I can say is good riddance to bad garbage.
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