What happens when you put Democrats in office? pt.2 Welcome to Illinois (Attack of the Republican Blogs)

Today on my Republican blog: Another example of what happens when you put democrats in office. To those of you who’ve never heard of Washington Park, please allow me to describe this city for you and also put in perspective the danger of electing democrats to any form of office.

Washington Park is a small community in southern Illinois with a population of less than 6000 residents, which also happens to be adjacent to East. St. Louis and directly across the Mississippi river from St. Louis. The median income is less than $50,000 a year, the unemployment rate is stunning and there’s (apparently) no economic stimulus, in so far as new business and development; and no one seems to be willing to fix this situation. But this municipality has one unique factor: strip clubs.

So it’s totally astonishing to me, that earlier this month, the city has declared bankruptcy. As anyone knows (lets be honest), on any given day the average strip club makes at least $50,000 a day in profit. So how can a city with such a small population, that also happens to be home to several strip clubs, be in debt? That’s your tax base!

Allow me to explain to you the details of this situation: facing mounting debts owed to trash collectors, pension funds and even (yes) one of its strip clubs, the municipality has filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in a decade. I’m just guessing that just like their previous chapter 9 filing in 2004, this will also be dismissed in bankruptcy court. Now how did they get to this point? I’m assuming that it stems from the city’s long history of electing democrats- but I’ll address that later.

This debt, driven in part by lawsuits against the city and the subsequent legal bills, became so unmanageable that its democratic board decided that it would be in its best interest to declare bankruptcy. As democratic Mayor John Thornton said “every time I turn around, they’re hitting us with lawsuits and on top of the lawyers; we got people stealing from us and the feds raiding.”

The reference to the city being stolen from refers to Dorothy Triplett, the city’s former payroll clerk, who in March pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $144,000 in public funds over two years, mostly from the police and fire pension fund. Also, in May, former assistant to Mayor Thornton, Linda Conner admitted in federal court to embezzling more than $300,000 in city money. But wait…it gets better.

In 2006, a federal judge ruled that the city’s strip club licensing practices were unconstitutional. Eric Joelner, owner of Fish Inc., won a court claim that ruled he was unfairly denied a license to open a topless club in the city. Now, bizarrely, the city owes him $80,000 in attorney fees. How does a city of less than 6000 residents owe $80,000 to a strip club owner? I’m going to once again assume that it has something to do with voting democrats into office. But wait…it gets even better!

The city’s two largest creditors are the Illinois Department of Employment Security, owed $448,793, and former public safety director John Matt, who’s owed $300,000 respectively. This lack of responsible governing is nothing new to Washington Park.
In the late 90’s former Mayor Sylvester Jackson was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for taking bribes in exchange for protecting gambling operations. Do you see this pattern people? This is what happens when you put democrats in office. For some strange reason, the residents of Washington Park have been asking for this pain for decades as evidenced by their continual election of democrats. But fortunately, there is good news after all.

I have a solution to end all of your self-inflicted pain very easily: VOTE REPUBLICAN. I know you’ve been trained all your life to vote for democrats; but what has that ever gained you? A bunch of empty promises, corruption, increased bureaucracy, more unemployment, higher taxes, ect, ect, ect.

So to all my friends in Illinois: stop it. It’s only so long that you can keep doing the same thing (voting for democrats) and expecting different results. If I’m not mistaken, that’s the textbook definition of insanity. 2010 is just months away. Make a change you can believe in and vote Republican.

In closing, I have to give a special thanks to all of our Armed Forces, the RNC, the Missouri Republican Party, the Illinois Republican Party, the College Republican National Committee, the National Black Republican Association, the Wall Street Journal, KSDK Channel 5, KTVI Fox 2 News, my personal assistant /gf #2 Jeanette, Chas (learn your history), Ms. Cook (let’s get this website started already), all of my Republican Blogs and Bloggers (They’re giving 2012 to us on a silver platter), my Libertarian blogs and bloggers (like your tax hikes?), my Democrat blogs and bloggers (you’re making it way too easy), and to all Political blogs and bloggers: Let your voice be heard. GOP in 2012! If you’re not on the right, you’re wrong. Ready by 2011 to win in 2012! Twitter me @ STL_Politics