Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight:

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

by Mike Klonsky

"We don't need no stinkin' vote!" Pension robbers Quinn and Nekritz agree.  (Sun-Times)

O.K., the great pension robbery has failed -- at least for now. The Quinn-Nekritz gang that couldn't shoot straight, ended up shooting each other and their plot to violate the State Constitution and raid the pension fund of struggling retirees fizzled out with barely a whimper.

But the culprits are still at large, parading around disguised as "progressives." Quinn is already political toast by my reading of the tea leaves.  But Elaine Nekritz (D-Northbrook) still roams the political landscape. There must be a way to punish her at the ballot box. On second-thought, if you've got to fight the pension robbers, maybe it's