Illinois former House speaker resigns after his scandal rocked the alleged sleazy Democrat

"How you dewin?" "No, how you dewin?"

Michael Madigan, the Democratic former Illinois House speaker resigned from the state legislature amid an ongoing federal bribery investigation. Madigan was in the state legislature for over fifty years and his salary from the taxpayers was allegedly not enough to keep him honest. Allegedly.

The lawmaker was implicated in an investigation into his ties with Commonwealth Edison, the state's largest utility provider. According to the allegations, the company gave perks worth $1.32 million in exchange for his non-judgmental approval on bills in the state legislature, according to federal investigators.

Madigan lost his speaker position in January after failing to secure crucial backing from his Democratic colleagues who viewed him as a political liability [and friendship is overrated anyway].

Madigan's associate Michael McClain and ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore were also charged along with others in November for their involvement in the scheme. McClain served alongside Madigan in the state house in the 1970s and '80s before leaving public service to lobby for ComEd.

Despite the ongoing investigation, Madigan retains his position as chairman of the state's Democratic Party as of Thursday morning because, hey, they're only allegations, in case it wasn't previously mentioned.

Madigan has not yet faced criminal charges but if he does, and is later incarcerated for it, he will not do well in prison.

In a statement upon his departure, Madigan said he was proud of his efforts to work with the private sector, leaving out the allegations that his work with the private sector was sketchy and allegedly criminal.

"Collaborating with leaders in the retail, hospitality, manufacturing, health care, and other industries, we built a partnership with job creators to encourage economic development and address crises in our unemployment insurance and workers' compensation systems," Madigan crowed.

Madigan suspended his reelection campaign for the speakership after he failed to secure the necessary votes from his Democratic colleagues in a party vote last month. He was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1971 and, other than two years of non-scandalous Republican control, served as speaker since 1983.

Illinois Democrats, like Al Capone and company, are no strangers to crime.

Governor J.B. Pritzker, [aka "Watermelon Head"] a close goomba of Madigan, faces an investigation over a scheme in which he removed toilets from his mansion so that the building would be deemed uninhabitable, letting him earn a $331,000 property tax break. Now the tenants of those buildings are full of it.

Luis Arroyo

Then there's state senator Tommy "Bag-o-Donuts" Cullerton who, in August 2019 was charged by the feds for an embezzlement scheme involving a labor union. [How surprising--unions tend to be so honest--just look at the Teachers' Union and the COVID situation.] 

Two months after Tommy caught heat, state representative Luis "The Face" Arroyo faced bribery charges after another state scumcrumpet senator, Terry "The Pigeon" Link, collaborated with the FBI and wore a wire to get the dirt on the plot.

Link pleaded guilty to tax fraud last year for underreporting his 2016 tax filings.

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