[lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 13 20:28:03 PST 2006


You've really gone over the top, or through the bottom, Nathan, if you are willing to excuse criminal behavior because the crooks support some good legislation. I thought you were a lawyer. You're starting to sound like an apologist for Willie Stark in All The King's Men. And what about ex-Governor Ryan? Sure, he took a few dirty dollars (well, a few hundreds of thousands of them) and sold a few dozen or hundred trucker's licences to people who couldn't drive, but hell, he commuted a shitload of death sentences, anf after oll, only seven kidsd ied when one of his truckers ran over their van. The math is pretty clear rt me.

--- Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "andie nachgeborenen"
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> - You suggested that Illinois shgould be a model
> for
> -national Democratic politics.
>
> Actually, the header says "model for Democratic
> agenda" which is different
> from model for Democratic politics. Brian
> Schweitzer and the Montana
> Democrats might be the better model for politics--
> populist, anti-corporate
> and energetic.
>
> But the Illinois legislature has passed a lot of
> laws that should be a model
> for issues for Dems to run on nationally.
>
> -Doesn't it matter to you that ll Illinois
> politicians
> -(except, apparently, Barak Obama and maybe
> Congressmen
> -Danny Davis) belong behind bars?
>
> If they did serious harm to other people, sure they
> should be behind bars.
> But from the reports I've seen, most of the
> accusations against Blojovich
> are over some abuse of patronage hiring, not a crime
> that outweighs trying
> to provide health care for hundreds of thousands of
> children.
>
> Nathan Newman
>
>
> ___________________________________
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>

__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list