Congratulations Gordy Hulten (Redux)

Gordy Hulten is in the news again, this time to take over for Mark Sheldon as Champaign County Clerk.

Sheldon was one of the few to raise concerns about some of the hanky-panky over there at the U of ILL and in Champaign by Clouter Mike Frerichs, who along with Fox/Atkins, Avijit Ghosh, and BJ White gets his wife a clout job in the business park. And there was John Cullerton, who gets family members of Tony Rezko into the U of Clout with the help of Richard Herman and (again) BJ White. We only hope that Mr. Hulten will serve the people of ILL as well as his predecessor and not resort to political shenanigans as those mentioned above did.

So for the second time, we wish Mr. Hulten the best (though we do miss his blog, which is now, for all intents and purposes, defunct. And its spiritual successor, "Halfway-Interesting"-is just that).

Posted by Alpha Hound

BLAHgo back?

Coming from Patrick Fitzgerald, a man most would expect to be upholding the law, this indeed is shocking:

Apparently, Fitzgerald, who has recently been lauded for getting rats and criminals out of IL businesses, now is chirping a different tune for jailbirds.

In his own words, would Fitzgerald consider the already-wronged populace of this laughing stock of a state "negligent" to not be so-inclined to have BLAHgo, Rezko, Ryan, and co. back in business?

Posted by Alpha Hound