Illinois governors more likely to be in the criminal justice system than leading it...Study

Of course our current executive leadership class is from....Illinois.  Natch.  Of course no Chicago city or county grandee has suffered such a fate.  The omerta is so much stronger by the lake.

The conviction of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich coincided with the release of a new study that finds that, since the 1970s,  a current or former Illinois governor is more likely to be in the criminal justice system than out. This is a shocking state of affairs that deserves more public attention and more dedication from the governor community. If only someone had reached out to these Illinois governors earlier. If only they had more positive role models. Perhaps if video games and TV weren’t full of images of politicians ripping off their states. Who knows what causes this epidemic? What we do know is that something must be done to stop this crisis in the heartland, to halt this inter-generational pattern of gubernatorial criminal pathology.