From State Rep. Steve Reick:
Silence is Corruption
Once again the smell of corruption is wafting through the Illinois House of Representatives.
This time the smell is coming from the office of the Speaker, who’s been subpoenaed as part of a bribery investigation involving Com Ed.
While he hasn’t been indicted, and may never be, there’s a point at which someone has to say “enough is enough”..
When is this going to end?
How much humiliation and ridicule will we have to endure while the rest of the world points fingers at our State and says:
“Oh, that’s just the way things are in Illinois, everybody knows it.”
I’ll tell you when this is going to end.
It’s going to end when Democrats, both those who are now in the House and those who hope to be in the House next session stand up and say something more than “if he’s guilty, he must resign,” ,if they’re saying anything at all.
Not having been indicted or found guilty of public corruption is a pretty low bar to be eligible to hold a position of public trust.
The people of this State deserve something better from those who they elect to govern them.
Otherwise we get what we now have: government through the back door, legislation like the ethics bills Republicans have tried to introduce that get bottled up in the Rules Committee, a Speaker who famously doesn’t have a cell phone or email account, so he can claim plausible deniability to being directly connected to the corruption swirling around him, a State in financial collapse.
If the Governor is serious about turning the page, he needs to call a special session of the legislature to address this issue..
And those who, like my opponent, have had ample time to consider what this means, it’s time to say something, even if it’s nothing more than “if he’s found guilty…”
After all, on his own website he says:
“I believe we need honest, ethical individuals to represent us at all levels of government.”
Well, Mr. Mayor, here’s your chance.
But when you list the Woodstock City Hall as your campaign office, you really aren’t off to a very good start yourself.
That building belongs to the people of Woodstock, not your campaign.
The bag tax mayor.
On another topic:
President Trump announced that the lawlessness surging in some US cities – like NYC and Chicago, where the number of shootings have skyrocketed as local police have pulled back – has inspired him to send in federal law enforcement to cities where violent crimes – murders, shootings, rapes and of course vandalism – are rapidly rising.
The decision comes as Portland and other ultra-liberal mayors (like Seattle) have said they don’t want federal agents in their cities.
The acting DHS head has ordered federal agents to police protests in Portland, as local police had been ordered to hold back as protesters vandalized public property (including a federal courthouse) and pelted cops with rocks, bottles and other projectiles.
Chicago is one city where agents will be sent as part of a federal program that Trump called “Operation Legend”.
“The operation in Chicago will be done as part of Operation Legend, which was recently launched in Kansas City…it was named after a four-year old, Legend Ruggiero, who was shot and killed while he slept,” Trump said.
He was joined by the boy;s family members.
Sager is always prancing around like the typical homo and likely that Kenneally is as well in some sicking Clay Bertrand like shenanigans!
Pass the Crisco ™ !
Really strong article and to the point.
Madigan is way overdue to retire.
He has been in power since 1971; almost 5o years.
Only thing Reick scores is a free drink at Lake Geneva. Watch out when he drives!
Reminds me of a line from the movie Guys and Dolls. Big Julie “Thirty three arrests and no convictions.”
This is sager’s claim to fame: welcoming the Blue Lotus Buddhist temple to Woodstock and having the gay pride parade.