Did indicted Illinois governor skip online ethics training thathe m andated for all state employees?

[Doug Harris]

He may perhaps have been a believer in the concept that, as some writers say re grammar rules,
you have to know 'em before you can (carefully) break them. The difference: He wasn't careful.
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And though these were your words, not his, it appears he was attempting to raise IL from being
"a politically corrupt state" to being "THE (pinnacle) politically corrupt state".
dh


Subject: Did indicted Illinois governor skip online ethics training that he mandated for all state employees?


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>Did indicted Illinois governor skip online ethics training that he
>mandated for all state employees?

>In 2003, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich ordered mandatory online
>ethics training for all state employees. Illinois had a reputation for
>being a politically corrupt state, and Blagojevich was determined to
>put an end to that. He told USA Today, "To truly change the culture in
>state government, we need to ensure that everyone involved – from the
>elected officials down to the mailroom clerks – understands what the
>rules are and how they apply to our work as employees of the public."

>But apparently, the governor forgot to take the ethics training
>himself. That's why FBI agents arrested Blago on Dec. 9 for trying to
>sell the Senate seat vacated by president-elect Barack Obama and other
>acts of political corruption. According to  Patrick J. Fitzgerald,
>U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois (the same federal prosecutor who
>convicted Bushie Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame affair, while
>letting Karl Rove off the hook), Blagojevich's actions "would make
>Lincoln roll over in his grave."

>....

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>Dennis Baron
>Professor of English and Linguistics
>Department of English
>University of Illinois
>608 S. Wright St.
>Urbana, IL 61801

>office: 217-244-0568
>fax: 217-333-4321

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