20-40 hindsight
Monday, Jul 8, 2013 - Posted by Rich Miller
* AP…
Retiring Chicago Alderman Dick Mell reflected Friday on his decades as a player in the city’s old-school machine politics and said one of his only regrets is aiding the rise of son-in-law and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, now in prison for corruption.
Mell helped Blagojevich make it to Congress in 1996 and later the governor’s mansion, but the two men subsequently had a public falling out that Mell said left a “terrible schism” between himself and his daughter. He said he wished he had done things differently.
With the benefit of hindsight, “I think that he would have probably stayed a state representative,” Mell said of his son-in-law.
Why even go that far? In hindsight, he should’ve been kept out of politics altogether.
