-By Warner Todd Huston
Well, with the winner of the democratic Party nomination for Lt. Gov. stepping down, one might think that the Party would give heavy weight to the other candidates that faced Scott Lee Cohen in the Lt. Gov. primary. Of course, if one thought that one would not be remembering that Illinois is Democrat leader Mike Madigan’s plaything.
The Sun-Times is reporting that Dem powerhouse Michael Madigan has decided that he’s going to ignore the second and third place vote getters in the primary and emplace his own, hand-picked buddy to take the Lt. Gov. spot.
So, Art Turner (the number 2 vote getter) and Mike Boland are out despite that the voters picked them as the next runner ups for the Lt. Gov. spot.
On WLS Radio today, GOP Chairman Pat Brady echoed this concern that Democrat powerbrokers are choosing elected officials now and not even bothering with the pretense of the voters having a say.
That is how corrupt the Illinois Democrats really are. They’ve at last revealed what they really think of the voters.
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Dem Powerbrokers to Ignore Voters, Choose Own Lt. Gov. Candidate”
The controversy over the election that put Scott Lee Cohen on the upcoming ballot as the Democrat’s Lt. Governor nominee is still roiling. Cohen has yet to step down bowing to calls for his head from every Illinois Democrat. Well, almost all of them, anyway. It seems that Chicago’s 
OK, folks, Mark Kirk is now the GOP candidate for Senate in the Land of Lincoln. Now is the time to remind everyone what we are facing, why we are fighting the corruption of Democrats, now is the time to focus on what is at stake…
Alderman Ike Carothers is going to jail over his corruption. The wormy apple didn’t fall too far from the diseased tree, either, because Ike’s daddy, himself a former Alderman, went to jail for corruption in 1983. Ike joins a dozen other Chicago politicians in the Big House.
The Tea Party folks keep getting mad at me for saying that in the end they might prove ineffective in races at levels higher than local because they aren’t organized enough. They puff up their chests proudly proclaiming that they intend to resist being organized and they claim that being organized is precisely what they are fighting against. I understand the feeling, even sympathize quite a lot, but there is a problem with this obstinacy. It means they won’t win on a statewide ballot very often. The Illinois primary just proved me correct, too.
Government is often called the “necessary evil.” But whatever it is, as each day passes we see that the “evil” part of that axiom seems ever more true. We can see the pernicious qualities of government at every level from local, to the state, to the era of Obamaism in the federal government. But if you want yet another example of how truly disgusting government is we have to look no farther than Illinois, the corruption larded Land of Lincoln.
Former Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna is trying to claim he is an “outsider businessman” and that he’s the only one not connected to Illinois corruption. But the facts seem to auger against McKenna’s claims.