Re: Democracy in America…
Reply #148 –
Crony Capitalism is an equal-opportunity employer anyway. It doesn't care whether the politician is a Democrat or a Republican.
Illinois has had problems with its governors. George Ryan (R) was voted out and replaced by Rod Blagojevich (D). Both of these governors were notably corrupt and engaged in "pay to play" politics. If you were a construction contractor looking to do business with Illinois, you had to kick in something to the governor's re-election campaign. That's just the way it was. The thing finally came to a head when Blago decided it would be a great idea to sell Obama's US Senate seat to the next occupant of that seat. You know what happened next: something that was intended to be private-hush-hush got blown into the major media, Blago got impeached and then booted out of office, indicted, tried, convicted and served time. The hapless fellow who got Obama's seat only got to serve out the remaining term, after that his name was so soiled by the way he got the seat that he couldn't get re-elected even by his friends, and we got a governor since who has turned in a rather lackluster performance. But-- that's crony politics/crony capitalism in Illinois.