Alvarez on the ‘Reform Commission?’
Excuse us if we find it a bit comical that new Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez is serving on Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn’s “Illinois Reform Commission.” As head of the County State’s Attorney Public Integrity Unit, she did not aggressively (if at all) fight public corruption (plent of it in Cook County, no?) and the finance chair of her campaign for State’s Attorney was major Blagojevich fundraiser Bob Clifford - a trial lawyer who has made a fortune suing the county that Alvarez now represents.
So we found this snippet funny from CBS 2 Chicago’s coverage of the Commission’s first meeting yesterday:
Another touchy moment came when former state Sen. Steve Rauschenberger, R-Elgin, said “the level of corruption in Illinois is unprecedented and unmatched” and asked “why Illinois’ 100 state’s attorneys are not more engaged in uncovering it and prosecuting it.”
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, a commission member, sat expressionless as he spoke.
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Sig on
Sat, 24th Jan 2009 12:00 pm
Tony,
All States attorneys in this state should be on board to clean up Illinois. If we removed all the corruption in Illinois, we might have money for police and SA budgets to fight other crimes as well as other much needed infrastructure.
I am with you. Why does it take a Federal SA to clean up our state, when our SA do not even fire one shot across the bow.
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