Goodbye, Illinois.

[CG6468]

I wish more Chicago pols would pack up and go away.

BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL
Politics from the Nation's Capital
Ill. state Senator leaves for Texas: 'I'm tired of subsidizing crooks.'
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By: Barbara Hollingsworth 03/21/11 3:47 PM
Local Opinion Editor

Roger Keats, a former Illinois state senator and Cook County Board president, is packing up and leaving the Land of Lincoln for good. The 62-year-old Keats was a good government reformer who helped clean up the rampant corruption in the Chicago-area courts uncovered by Operations Greylord and Gambat.

But now he’s throwing in the towel, and he and his wife are heading for Texas. “I am tired of subsidizing crooks," Keats told the Wilmette Beacon.

In “Good Bye and Good Luck,” a letter to all the friends and political supporters he’s leaving behind after 60 years, Keats says he is leaving what he calls “the most corrupt big city…and most corrupt state in America” with “a heavy heart.”

Goodbye Chicago, Hello, Texas!

[thundley4]

Unfortunately it sounds like he might have been one of the half-way decent ones, if such a thing exists in northern Illinois.

[CG6468]

Unfortunately it sounds like he might have been one of the half-way decent ones, if such a thing exists in northern Illinois.

That's a REAL big "IF."

The recently elected conservative rep from our district - Adam Kinzinger - is an exception, though.

[Thor]

Tell him us Texans don't want him down here!!