-By Warner Todd Huston
Newly elected Cook County Commissioner Jeff Tobolski is leaving the office of mayor of the Village of McCook, Illinois. Now, a few weeks after the election, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that he and his father before him have filled village government with relatives from top to bottom raking in a combined $350,000 in yearly salary (not including benefits), tax money elicited from a tiny village of only 200 some residents.
Naturally, in another installment of the “name that party” game, the Chicago Sun-Times seemed to somehow forget to mention in its coverage of this outrageous nepotism that Tobolski is yet another corrupt Democrat who is only in government for personal enrichment and to dole out goodies, high paying jobs, and pension benefits to his relatives.
Also just as naturally, the Chicago Sun-Times somehow forget to release this story before the recent election. Obviously the Times didn’t want to hurt the election chances of this Democrat on Nov. 2.
But there is an amusing aspect to this story. As corrupt Democrat Jeff Tobolski and his corrupt father before him have hired dozens of their relatives to feed off the poor residents of the Village of McCook, this man ran for Cook County Board using the campaign tactic of decrying the nepotism and corruption of the current Cook County Board President, Todd Stroger.
That’s right, the guy that was hiring his cousins, nephews, sons and daughters was cynically blaming another politician for hiring his cousins, nephews, sons and daughters.
Yet, during the whole election the Sun-Times held this story back. They ignored this glaring hypocrisy because the Sun-Times isn’t about reporting the news. It is about helping Democrats get elected. Now, after the election, the Times publishes this story? Likely the Times is also now proudly pointing to it and puffing themselves up as “equal opportunity” slammers of both Democrats and Republicans. But that they published this story long after it could have helped voters make a choice against a corrupt Democrat proves that the Times’s real goal isn’t pushing the “news” but is pushing the Democrats on an uninformed electorate.
Tobolski beat a Republican in his County commissioner race, too. This pretty much assures what the Times true goal was here.
But this is the criminal enterprise that is the Illinois Democrat Party in particular and government in general in the United States today. These arrogant Democrats set up what amount to cartels of powerbrokering turning their relatives into placemen and jobbers enriching family at the expense of the people.
Welcome to the most corrupt state in the union. It isn’t the Land of Lincoln. It’s the Land of Placemen.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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