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* The Executive Ethics Commission has released its ruling on Gov. Pat Quinn’s former chief of staff Jerry Stermer…
A senior adviser to Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has been fined $500 for sending a political email from a state telephone. […]
Stermer was the Democratic governor’s chief of staff in January 2010 when he reported that he’d sent the questionable emails the previous month.
The commission determined one email from his state phone was to campaign staffers. The other two were sent from a private computer on a Sunday.
One campaign e-mail that Stermer reported himself, not the three that Stermer initially believed. Stermer’s disclosure led to an eight-month investigation by the Office of Executive Inspector General, who looked at every e-mail the guy ever sent. Stermer resigned when the results of the investigation were apparently leaked by an inspector general who was about to be replaced.
I sure hope the OIEG’s office has learned something from this ridiculous case.
posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:29 pm
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Wrist-slaps, years later, for Blago henchmen and women doing flagrant violations, but the full TSA strip-search for a minor infraction with Stermer, self-reported.
What the office needs is a sense of scale, proportion, and timeliness.
This office is a good idea but under-funded and run like a ping-pong game, smashing from extreme to extreme in their level of response. If you read their latest bulletin, they basically say there’s just too much to investigate without and they’ll never have resources to follow them all up, but they will still randomly strike every once in a while, just to keep people guessing.
Not a powerful deterrent.
Comment by Gregor Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:37 pm
When you try to separate politics from government what do you get—a bumbling clueless administration. Its part of how government works. This is swatting at gnats while some of the Blago folks who would have stolen a hot stove still walk free.
Comment by Madame Defarge Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:44 pm
They need one of those guidline things like the fed have for sentencing. Fines by severity of offense, aggravating and mitigating factors etc. There is a wide range of offenses picked up by the single act and its general penalties.
Imagine if we just had one criminal offense which had a general penatly since as a range from 1-5000
Comment by Ghost Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:53 pm
Three comments. A bit lighter than I expected.
Comment by Rich Miller Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 4:38 pm
=== I sure hope the OIEG’s office has learned something from this ridiculous case. ===
Doubtful.
Everyone must justify their budgets. And its hard to justify your budget if you don’t spend every freakin’ penny, no matter how wastefully.
Just look at the federal Drug Czar.
Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 5:24 pm
Justice has been served. Apparently, Illinois is ready for reform.
We can all sleep soundly tonight knowing that the terrible swift sword of justice has rooted out corruption in Illinois politics.
Surreal.
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:07 pm