Walker Ain't So Bad and C'mon Columbus Journal!!!

So I was emailing and talking to my brother about Walker and I was not getting the type of response I was expecting. I started to get worried that he had gone over to the dark side with him being a high flying businessman with his own multi-layer company and so forth.

But then I realized . . . . he lives in Illinois.

About that same time I was playing online poker and a guy asked if Wisconsin was still going to RECALL our Governor and I said yea. Another guy pipes in and asks why and I said in a nutshell, corruption. He says "corruption?" "You guys don't even know what corruption is". He was from the Dominican Republic or something.

Anyway - thinking of my brother who is the Melotte of Melotte, Morse, Leonatti, Parker and his flat landness I realized we here in Wisconsin have it pretty easy.  Look at Illinois and THEIR Government.

Since 1973 they have had FOUR Governors actually serve jail time and two others that were acquitted. One of those acquitted by a jury was rather odd as eight of those jury members, after the trial, received sweet State jobs. That almost sounds fishy doesn't it.  In that trial the defense lawyer, a former Illinois Governor stated that "the governorship has the divine right of kings." Sounds like something the current Cheese Pharaoh would say.

William G. Stratton was Governor '53-'61 and was acquitted on tax evasion. Then his successor, Otto Kerner, Jr. was convicted of 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and income-tax charges and spent three years in jail. After getting out of jail he became a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

His successor was Dan Walker who was involved in the Savings and Loan scandal and convicted of federal crimes related to fraudulent loans to himself. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.

BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE

A decade went by and then George H. Ryan became governor and spent four years in office. He was convicted in 2006 of corruption related to his time as Illinois Secretary of State in the 1990s. Seems commercial driver's licenses were issued to unqualified truckers in exchange for bribes, and one of the truckers was involved in a crash that killed six children. He is still in prison.

And then there is our buddy Rod Blagojevich, George Ryan's successor. Rod will be spending the next 14 years doing hard time (yes, hard time, not the plushy jail time, if you are convicted for more the 10 years you get actual hard time in a real prison, plus, you spend the first few years doing the BAD jobs).

So in Wisconsin we can complain about Walker but don't complain to Illinois.  Also - Illinois has no limit on how long a guy can be Governor. In fact 14 states have no gubernatorial term-limits.

‎315 E. James Street

Columbus Journal.  

I'm really hoping the Columbus Journal will post an article about this recall. The local high school newspaper has had more news about this then the Columbus Journal.  If the Cbus Journal is a true newspaper they should have both sides. After all they gave a Republican a 1/4 page article about why the budget needed to be put through, should not the OTHER side have the same rights? 

I read the Journal every week and they seem to be looking for news, THIS IS NEWS!  How many times in American history has there been a Recall . . . .well . . .California has had 32 but they are not of this world.  There have only been two successful Governor recalls in American history.  This is a first for Wisconsin and a newspaper has NO NEWS??  

This IS news, you are a newspaper.  You guys are being beaten by high-school kids. You want people to read your newspaper? this is a gift, this is news!!   Sure 50% of the people that read the paper will not like the article but 50% will!  Don't ignore, inform!  or we can continue to look at more photos of people with big checks and where the next pancake breakfast will be or hospital news.

sigh!

Rod Melotte