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Scott Lee Cohen, the pawnbroker whose surprise victory in last week’s Democratic lieutenant governor primary was followed by scandalous revelations about him, quit the race tonight during the half time of the Super Bowl, saying he didn’t want to “put the people of Illinois in jeopardy in any way.”
Cohen made the tearful announcement at [...]

GOP cap-and-tax 8′er Mark Kirk won the GOP primary in Illinois for the Senate seat formerly occupied by Barack Obama.
After pandering to enviro-nitwits and casting his vote in favor of the largest energy tax increase in American history based on shoddy science and Al Gore-led fear-morning, Rep. Kirk promised Illinois voters he wouldn’t pander the [...]

As part of the pre-State of the Union publicity blitz, the Obama White House had its cabinet members sit down for quickie videos to tell you how they all “got to work” and “took bold steps to rescue the country from a potential second Great Depression; to rebuild the economy for the long-term — so [...]

Let’s see. Corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder gave the New Black Panther Party thugs a pass. And he gave pay-for-play corruptocrat Bill Richardson a pass.
Who’s the lucky winner today?
Democrat Rep. Alan “Cheat River” Mollohan of West Virginia.
You may recall that he was forced to step down from the House Ethics Committee four years [...]

From the land of Barack and Michelle and Rahm and Valerie and David and David and Arne and Ray and Desiree, here’s the latest corruption scandal rocking the Windy City. They did it for the children, no doubt:
The credit cards of 89 Chicago Board of Education employees have been yanked in the midst of an [...]

Graphic via Libertymanics/Zazzle
No corruption-scented no-bid contracts…except for Barack Obama’s own cronies, that is. James Rosen at FNC has the scoop:
The Obama administration this month awarded a $25 million federal contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a prominent Democratic campaign contributor without entertaining competitive bids, Fox News has learned.
Despite President Obama’s long [...]

Sorry, Dad.

They call themselves the “Nebraskans Advisory Group” — a small band of citizens angry (yes, ANGRY!) about Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson’s ridiculous Demcare cop-out/sell-out/attempted shameless do-over. Group founder Susan Smith e-mails that a dozen members stood out in the snow for their first “Rat Rally” last weekend.
A few choice photos:

The protesters have plenty of company. [...]

Under the bus.

The culture of corruption never rests. Neither does Judicial Watch, which has just filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit over a possible quid pro quo deal involving VP Joe Biden.
The deets:
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against [...]

Raise your hand if you stand for Business as Usual.
My column today shines light on Democrat Mass. Attorney General/Senate candidate Martha Coakley’s career tolerance for the culture of corruption.
While she cracks down on little gardening clubs, she has turned a blind eye to far bigger, dirtier, rotten scoundrels. The Big Labor spigots are flowing. [...]

This guy better watch his back. Via John Kass at the Chicago Tribune:
Political corruption is finally a real issue in this corrupt state, because it’s led Illinois to financial ruin and now almost every candidate running for something has an anti-corruption message.
Some promise transparency. Others vow to serve only one term. A few candidates — [...]

Guess how many members of Congress — a swamp teeming with tax cheats, conflict of interest-laden wheeler-dealers, and corner-cutters– have been punished by the House ethics committee?

Zero, zip, nada:
Nearly three years after Congress approved sweeping ethics rules to “drain the swamp,” as incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, no member of Congress has been [...]

Charm City’s corruptocrat mayor finally resigned. But remember what I said about corruptocrat toe fungi: They never really go away! She’ll be able to run for office again in two years and she gets to keep her taxpayer-funded pension after raiding donations for the poor for her own personal shopping sprees.
Slap on the wrist:
After more [...]

Culture of Corruption.

Laughingstock.

My column looks at the year in Washington political bribery. And what a year it was for the Beltway’s reverse Santa Clauses, who are suspended simultaneously in mental states of denial and indignation. Democrat Sen. Mary “Louisiana Purchase” Landrieu defended her payoff while declaring that she “can’t be bought.”Democrat Sen. Tom “Iowa Bounty” Harkin dismissed [...]

The federal porkulus bill contains $6 billion for something called the “Neighborhood Stabilization Program” to combat blight. The money is being dispensed to to state and local housing authorities and non-profit organizations across the country under the guise of community service and economic redevelopment to clean up and purchase foreclosed homes.
There has been little scrutiny [...]

GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown is calling out the SEIU and Democrat rival Martha Coakley in Massachusetts for using state resources to campaign.
Coakley is the state Attorney General. Fox guarding the henhouse:
Republican Senate hopeful Scott Brown has filed a complaint with the State Ethics Commission after a report that a union backing rival Martha Coakley [...]

Not a peep from the national mainstream media about the embarrassing withdrawal of US Attorney nominee Stephanie Villafuerte and the damning indictment of the Colorado Democrat machine.
As I said, the withdrawal still leaves many unanswered questions about Denver’s ICE bureau, the prosecution of ICE whistleblower Cory Voorhis, and the accountability of DHS — which Sen. [...]

Baltimore’s mayor is a corruptocrat.
Baltimore’s ACORN thugs break into houses with impunity.
Baltimore crime is out-of-control.
Baltimore’s schools are a mess.
So, what is the city doing to take responsibility for its ills and fix them?
They’re suing Wells Fargo:
A federal judge suggested Monday that he might restrict the scope of a first-of-its kind lawsuit filed by the [...]

In October, I called your attention to the smelly US Attorney nomination out of Colorado involving Stephanie Villafuerte (see here and here).
Looks like the stonewall that the Dems and DOJ built for her has collapsed under the weight of local and state pressure — compounded by tough questions from the Denver Post’s Karen Crummy and [...]

Meow.

Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder was in Long Island over the weekend to speak at his brother’s congregation at Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Gathering of Eagles NY has photos and video of a citizen protest against Holder’s terrorist-coddling policies.
Never forget. Keep on them.
Watch Keep America Safe’s new video, “Raise Your Voices:”

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Related breaking news this morning from SCOTUS:
The Supreme [...]

Cue up “Do the Hustle.” Looks like the extortionists of the Congressional Black Caucus got their way.
Last week, I noted the CBC’s efforts to squeeze bailout money from the Democrats’ financial “reform” package for minority-owned businesses — specifically, the failing radio/media empire of former Malcolm X lawyer and Air America/Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton/Charlie Rangel crony Percy [...]

If you want breathless, celebrity tabloid treatment of the first Obama White House state dinner — who wore what, who came with whom, what they ate — go somewhere else. This is a closer look at the cronies, czars & corruptocrats whom Obama wined and dined last night.
- SEIU president/top White House visitor Andy Stern [...]

Yesterday, I noted the troubled political life and sudden death of Chicago developer/Daley croney/Olympic bid-pusher/public schools chief Michael Scott.
The medical examiner’s office ruled the death a suicide.
But the case is not closed. Police are still continuing a probe:
“We know what the (medical examiner) ruled, but there’s still a lot of questions that exist out there,” [...]

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Michael Scott’s name came up several times during the Obama-lympics 2016 debacle. He was one of many Chicago cronies who stood to gain from the bid.
The local papers in Chicago sniffed out his conflicts of interest as an Olympics committee member who was also involved in trying to develop a for-profit real [...]

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Justice is served. The race hustlers will bray and moan, but disgraced Democrat Rep. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson had it coming. Thirteen years in prison for what the judge in the case called “the most extensive and pervasive pattern of corruption in the history of Congress:”
Former Rep. William Jefferson was sentenced today to [...]

The thug politics power couple of Anita “A Pox on Fox” Dunn and Bob “The Silencer” Bauer isn’t going anywhere. I said it earlier this week and on Fox News early Thursday morning (vid here).
Now comes word late tonight that Bauer is indeed — as has been rumored for nearly a month via Glenn Beck [...]