Examples of Corruption
Re-elected Champaign official plans to resign seat
So, oldish news, but this guy, two weeks into his term he resigns to take a job with someone else. Now, if you plan to resign your seat, maybe you shouldn’t have ran in the first place. In this country we vote for candidates, not parties. Using the incumbency advantage to hold the seat for your party to toss the seat over to another Republican who couldn’t manage to win her own race (a race I paid attention and was so disgusted by, I ended up voting for the Socialist) is pretty outrageous. Yeah, he says he got the offer 2 days before the election, but why would a law firm give him an offer that soon to an election, and did he solicit the offer in the first place?
If it weren’t for all the other standard corruption in this state (from both parties) he might get the benefit of the doubt. But politicians in this state have done nothing but reaffirm my low expectations of them.
