News you won't find in the New York Times: Two more East St. Louis Democrats were sentenced today by Judge G. Patrick Murphy to prison terms for their roles in a 2004 vote-buying scandal, as AP reports.
Kevin Ellis, the former director of regulatory affairs for East St. Louis, got 54 months. Fifteen months in the house with many doors is the sentence former ESL precinct committeeman Jesse Lewis got from Judge Murphy.
In 2004, the East St. Louis Democratic Party offered voters $10 to vote in the November general election. By all accounts, the practice had been going on for many years, with liquor and cigarettes sometimes offered to voters as well.
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Hat tip to Cal Skinner of the McHenry County Blog.
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