<<It's not every day that a former governor gets sentenced to federal prison. >>

Fairly routine for us in Illinois.

<<It's not every day that a former governor gets sentenced to federal prison. >>

Fairly routine for us in Illinois.

Ha ha - good point. Chicago mayors haven't faired to well either, have they.

Ha ha - good point. Chicago mayors haven't faired to well either, have they.

<<It's not every day that a former governor gets sentenced to federal prison. >>

Fairly routine for us in Illinois.

Ha ha - good point. Chicago mayors haven't faired to well either, have they.

I had to look that up, since I figured it was Richard Daley Sr and Jr then Emmanuel. But I guess there were five mayors between. And yes, one went to jail. I had forgotten there was a lady mayor who was going to live in Cabrini-Green to show how safe it was. That didn't work out well.

no mayor has gone to jail that I remember

I think I got Chicago confused with Detroit - didn't a recent mayor from Detroit get put away?

I never got a good vibe for him.

Shows he has a couple of serious judgement issues if he married the woman who is helping send him to jail...

http://hamptonroads.com/...ced-two-years-prison

It's not every day that a former governor gets sentenced to federal prison.

I usually have a certain amount of schadenfreude when former politicians get there just desserts for corruption, but not in this case. I still think McDonnell is a good man who married the wrong woman.

I hope his wife gets a longer sentence.

In a letter to the federal judge who would be sentencing Robert McDonnell, the couple’s eldest daughter, Jeanine McDonnell Zubowsky, blamed the fiasco on her mother’s materialism, mental-health issues and interest in “freebees.”

Maureen McDonnell’s appearance in court Tuesday did not, on its own, suggest that the family woes aired during the trial had healed. Painful estrangement remained on vivid display. Zubowsky, pregnant with the couple’s first grandchild, sat at one end of a courtroom bench reserved for family. Maureen McDonnell, who was not invited to her daughter’s recent baby shower, sat toward the other end. They did not appear to interact.

Not enough time...I believe that anyone that commits a crime in office should be summarily shot upon conviction. It won't stop crime but it will lower the recidivism rate.

I guess this went before scotus and the experts think a majority will side with him. I was reading a few articles prior to the court appearance. Of course sitting politicians are in support of him. Law enforcement not. And different groups in favor. I find it odd that the scotus wouldn't want have too much power over elected officials but they support ever increasing police powers.

Just further proof rules are different for pols. Sickening really.

http://www.cnn.com/...mcdonnell/index.html

The key here seems to be a combination of laws that favor Elected officials and a political witch hunt which basically threw the sink at him hoping something stuck. I think he needs to pay a price and laws that give elected officials too much leeway stuck down.

The key question is what next. We can only hope they pursue a more direct course of prosecution.