Sen Millner on Guerra
Sen. John Millner (R-Elmhurst), a retired cop, called the accusations against Guerra "appalling" and said he should immediately step down or be fired.Millner kinda has a point here.
"If a police officer committed a felony -- he may be the best cop in the world -- you can't hire him. So therefore, how can they hire a $120,000-a-year deputy chief of staff in the governor's office with a past like this?"
But the politician who recommended Guerra for his state job, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), lavished praise on a longtime acquaintance who "made what he considered a principled decision, and he paid a heavy price for that decision."
"I have known Steven for a long time. He is a good man who cares about making our state a better place to live," said Gutierrez, who persuaded President Bill Clinton to grant clemency to 11 imprisoned FALN members in 1999.
Let's see a GOP Gov hire Libby.
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At least Luis G didn't recommend Jose Padilla.
Most of Luis's inner circle was FALN and many on terrorist watch lists. Violence was used by some in this organization as in others and purchase of weapons and links to street gangs and drugs.
Get an id anon...thanks
Bill, the issue would be better stated as a GOP gov hiring Libby twenty years from now.
It just boggles my little mind. A person commits a crime, does the time, supposedly rehabilitated by the system. Then is never to work again? At the very least should there not be a time limit and if full disclosure why not hire him?Then again maybe any conviction should bar politicians from jobs. Evendently a misdeamor disorderly disquallifies you from the senate now if only dui's counted.
@Dupage
abetting FALN terrorists sort of a unique crime don't you think?
If Guerra had tap danced in a john, I would just as soon not know.
Who can trust or believe anything Luis Gutierrez says?
Little Luis is a liar, pathological and probably a sociopath. He has lied and broken his word as a matter of doing business.
His loyalty is not to the United States or the US Constitution but his view of an independent Puerto Rico not in union with the US.
That is fine but let him move there and fight for independence--not represent the United States and make money with his wife on US dollar bond deal or airport issues or Chicago (not San Juan) real estate with advantages that others do not have.
Luis Gutierrez is a hypocrite.
He has accomplished nothing as Congressman.
FALN may have had a legitimate function as some believe the IRA or the PLO or the JDL or whoever--but when you try to kill Congressman, shoot and kill Congressman, conspire to kill a President of the United States, blow up buildings, and traffic in guns in up until the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s---that makes you a criminal. If you are part of a criminal organization that may make you part of a RICO statute--or worse after 9-11--and even if you do have First Amendment Rights or Freedom of Association--which I agree and don't agree with some of the post 9-11 excesses--it is still a crime to lie to FBI agents or to Obstruct Justice or conspire with or aid and abett those illegally trafficking in weapons (something Luis G and Daley want to ban and make a felony), trying to overthrow a current legal government, or violence--this isn't that difficult.
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