Chicago Tribune: A veteran politician Rahm Emanuel named to his mayoral transition team resigned her high-level state job last summer and paid a fine for conducting political business on state time, according to a newly filed ethics report.
Judy Erwin, a co-chair of Emanuel's mayoral campaign, said late Friday night that she would resign her new post on his transition team after the Tribune contacted her and the campaign. She said she hadn't informed Emanuel of the ethics violation.
Erwin, the former executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, admitted using her office e-mail and phone while working on a campaign committee for presidential candidate Barack Obama, using staff resources to plan her trip to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and engaging in campaign fundraising activity while on the job, the state's Executive Ethics Commission ruled in a decision filed Feb. 16.
The ethics commission said she cooperated with the investigation by the executive inspector general, reimbursed the state, agreed to pay a $4,000 fine and promised to never work for the state again. She resigned Aug. 15.
That was a very short promise. If Chicago thought it was going to get real Hope and Change from Team Rahm, they are in for a rude awakening. Read the rest of the story for cozy nexus between Judy Erwin and the Obama administration.
Via: Memeorandum
Via: The Chicago Tribune
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...same ole story. Do you think dual citizenship should be allowed?
Garbage. And tax payers have to pay their salaries.
Oh, we [private, independent workers/owners] also have to pay for the garbage known as public sector unions from our tax money even though we are not in the communist party.
2nd Anony
I know I shouldn't notice......but Rahm has no shoulders....rather like Anthony Weiner. Perhaps that is why they are both prone to overcompensating verbally.
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