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Why Michael Madigan hasn't yet been indicted

Why Michael Madigan hasn't yet been indicted
Jim Nowlan
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Friends ask: “Why hasn’t Mike Madigan been indicted yet? After all, he has been under investigation for what must be a couple of years now.”
My answer: It’s because the federal prosecutor is not confident he can prove that the former Illinois House speaker personally did anything illegal.
I define public corruption as receiving unearned personal gain at taxpayer expense. There are obviously illegal forms of corruption — as well as “legal corruption.” In the latter, there is political gain but not provable personal gain.
For example, several decades ago, there was passionate debate in Springfield over Illinois ratification of the U.S. Equal Rights Amendment (an effort which then failed narrowly in Illinois). As the debate raged, in the state Capitol and within earshot of others, a woman baldly offered a legislator $500 or so if he would vote for the ERA Amendment. That is clearly an act of public corruption, and she was convicted for same, as I recall.

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Do you, like me, suffer from malaise?

Do you, like me, suffer from malaise?
Jim Nowlan
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In the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter supposedly worried that Americans were suffering from collective malaise, the French word for an underlying feeling of discomfort, uneasiness. Carter was roundly ridiculed. A few years later, President Ronald Reagan campaigned in 1984 on the theme, in sharp contrast: “It’s morning again in America.” Whether that were true, the Reagan positivity fueled his successful re-election.
But today, I do feel a sense of personal malaise about how things are going in our country. Do you feel like I do? And if so, why, and what can we do about it?

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