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| MEDRANO: Down for the count, again! |
The
State Board of Elections officially kicked him off the ballot – meaning that
the Republican field of candidates who want to challenge Gov. Pat Quinn in the
Nov. 4 general election is now down to the four blowhards you actually have
heard of.
ALSO
REMOVED WERE Armen Alvarez and William Lee, who both wanted to run as
Republicans against Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill. That field of people likely to
get beaten up electorally by Durbin is down to state Sen. James Oberweis,
R-Sugar Grove, and Doug Truax, who owns a risk consulting firm and likes to
make mention of the fact he attended West Point!
But
they are not the only ones who will no longer be part of the political scenery.
Take
Ambrosio Medrano, the one-time City Council member who got put away years ago
on a political corruption rap and served a prison sentence.
Medrano
on Friday in U.S. District Court received a 10-1/2 year prison sentence for
what prosecutors convinced a jury was illegal activity he engaged in while
serving as a political consultant who worked with Cook County government
officials (prosecutors say he was getting financial kickbacks on the bandages
being sold for use at Stroger Hospital).
MOST
POLITICAL PEOPLE who wind up doing a prison sentence get out and maintain a low
profile.
They
certainly don’t get back in the political game and engage in activity that puts
them right back into prison! But that is what happened to Medrano – whose place
in the Chicago political history books is literally now one of being a
political corruption repeat offender.
Considering
that he’ll be nearly 70 by the time he is released, I don’t know whether to
think it is feasible that he could become a “three time loser” in the acts of
legally inappropriate government behavior.
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