Illinois Senator Richard Durbin has started working on requesting a commutation of sentence for convicted criminal and former governor George Ryan. Here are pertinent facts from a story printed in the Springfield State Journal Register.
Ryan, 74, was convicted in April 2006 of steering contracts, tax fraud, misuse of tax dollars and state workers, and killing a bribery investigation. He began serving his sentence in early November 2007 at a federal prison in Oxford, Wis., and was transferred Feb. 28 to a prison in Terre Haute, Ind.
“Let’s look at the price he’s paid,” Durbin told reporters. “His family name has been damaged. … He has lost the economic security, which most people count on at his age. And he is separate from his wife at a time when she is in frail health. To say that he has paid a price for his wrongdoing — he certainly has. The question is whether continued imprisonment is appropriate at this point.”
This is wrong. George Ryan is a textbook example of what is wrong with government in Illinois. George Ryan belongs in prison, paying for the wrong he did to you and me and every other citizen of the State of Illinois by defiling the trust vested in him as governor of the state. Take a minute and tell Richard Durbin what you think. I did.
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It’s the day after , and Christmas season and college football are entering their fourth month. The football action has shifted to the warmer regions, bowl bids are still up for grabs and there’s money to be made. After 98 predictions, I am even. That is cause for either hope or desperation. This weekend’s selections:
Washington State @ Hawaii -29.5
Many points, yes. Washington State is terrible and the Rainbows usually skewer teams like this at home.
Florida -16.5 @ Florida State
Urban Mayer has no soul. Keep it up!
Syracuse @ Cincinatti -21.5
Syracuse spent everything last week proving that USB stinks.
Fresno State @ Boise State -21
Smurfturf is the answer.
That’s enough for this weekend . Go shopping now and help the economy. Buy a couple of houses. Oh, yeah, the still willin' part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSbYE4H28zI
