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Last Updated on Monday, 16 June 2008 05:18 Written by rslcpol Monday, 16 June 2008 10:30
Wowzers – Linda Pence may have just done some serious damage to her political campaign to the state’s top lawyer by being too lawyerly! It’s times like this that Republican A.G. nominee Greg Zoeller (and current Deputy A.G.) must really be grateful to have an opponent who produces her own negative fodder. Keep it up Linda Lou!From the Post-Tribune:
National polls tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama taking the White House this fall, and conventional wisdom is that Democratic presidents seldom appoint federal prosecutors who will aggressively pursue corruption charges against Democratic politicians. At present, the only public officials indicted as part of the U.S. Attorney’s Operation Restore Public Integrity probe still awaiting trial are former Calumet Township Trustee Dozier Allen and a handful of his lieutenants.
Will Pence go after Pastrick, who still sits on the Democratic National Committee and whose son, Scott, is a powerful Washington lobbyist? Would Obama appoint a successor to U.S. Attorney David Capp, who continued the Restore Public Integrity probe even after Joseph Van Bokkelen was appointed to the federal bench last year?
“I don’t think it matters that much,” Van Bokkelen said.
Washington sets priorities…
Also read this opinion piece, ‘Pence’s Corruption Stand a Bit Iffy‘