Friday, April 20, 2012

Dixon horse lady scandal: No recall option for voters on mayor, city council

Dixon Arch, June 6, 2011
Blogging from FreedomWorks' BlogCon in Charlotte.

Dixon, Illinois, the town where its longtime treasurer/comptroller, Rita Crundwell, allegedly stole $30 million to finance her horse breeding operation and an accompanying lavish lifestyle, is not different from just about every Land of Lincoln municipality--there is no recall option for voters to throw the asleep-at-the-switch mayor and city council members out of office.

Things have to change in Illinois, my friends. There's an underlying corrosive rot of corruption in the Prairie State and I've witnessed it firsthand in the private sector. Yes, the horse lady story is an extraordinarily obscenity against taxpayers, but there is an "everyone does it" mentality in Illinois that needs be stamped out of existence.

The pestilence is widespread. As for cures, harsh punishment is one--Rod Blagojevich's 14 year prison sentence is a step in the right direction. And businesses need to stop fearing bad publicity and start calling the police in addition to firing their workplace crooks.

What's the endgame? A more honest Illinois.

Lincoln statue, Dixon
And we need widespread recall options.

Don't we want to make Honest Abe proud of us?

Related posts:

Illinois corruption: Reagan's hometown hit by $30 million embezzling scandal
Ronald Reagan Trail: Dixon
Ronald Reagan Trail: Lowell Park and 78 lives saved
Marathon Pundit's Ronald Reagan Trail
Midwestern Presidential Pathway: Dixon, a shining city upon a hill
Midwestern Presidential Pathway: Ronald Reagan's Dixon, Illinois
Ike, the military truck convoy, the Lincoln Highway, and Dixon, Illinois
The only statue of Lincoln in military dress is in Dixon, Illinois
New Reagan statue in Dixon, Illinois
On this day 155 years ago: Lincoln campaigns for Frémont in Dixon, IL



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1 comment:

Cal Skinner said...

Outside auditors do not consider finding fraud to be part of their jobs.