Carol Marin makes me even more cynical about the boy king:
“Rock the System” Rod in 2005 promised to pass sweeping ethics legislation that would be nothing short of a reform earthquake. But while he talked the ethics game, he kept raising cash the old-fashioned Illinois way and still does. It’s instructive to look at an NBC5/Unit 5 examination of just one Blagojevich fund-raising day this summer to see what that really means.
On June 17, Blagojevich held one of his many unpublicized money-raising events. That night he picked up $167,000, more than half of which, $102,000, came from 23 companies doing business with the state. In the last five years, those 23 companies have put a million bucks into Blagojevich’s campaign coffers but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the rewards they reaped.
State records show those companies have gotten half a billion dollars — repeat, half a BILLION — in state contracts.
Think of it. Businesses put a million in and get half a billion of our tax money out.
Why doesn’t he want to sign the ethics bills? Think about his lawyer bills.