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Article: Power-grabbing governor soon will see error of his ways Blagojevich wants to set up a super inspector general.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 21, 2003
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Do we call him Governor Napoleon?"Napoleon" is state
Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka's word. She is complaining that Gov.
Blagojevich would like to appoint an "executive inspector general"--
a state ethics czar who will oversee everybody's ethics. But who will
judge the czar's ethics? And who will judge the governor's ethics?
The executive inspector general he appointed? Not likely.
The idea was spawned by a governor who acknowledges he got a C in
constitutional law. A governor who says he was so busy at Pepperdine
University, located on Malibu beach, that he barely knew where the
law library was located, there was so much surfing and sunbathing
going on.
The story about ethics and state ...