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As former governor George Ryan remains in jail, his attorney has a new target to plead to for a pardon: President Obama. Acknowledging that the president has "other things on his plate," Ryan's attorney, Jim Thompson (a former governor himself) plans on asking Obama to commute Ryan's sentence. Ryan is currently serving a six-and-a-half year prison term for racketeering and fraud. [Chicago Breaking News]
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Hopefully President Obama will remember that George Ryan is a grown man who should have been more than aware of the consequences of his actions.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of kids who are a third of Ryan's age serve are required to serve their full sentences.
If Obama commutes Ryan's sentence now, it's just opening the door for Blago to demand the same in a few years... and how do we stop the governors of this state from breaking the law if we don't hold them accountable? Public officials need to pay a real price for abusing the power they were granted by the voters.