Tax Cheat Schakowsky Loses Post

While many of us have been focused on the GOP house majority whip race, slated for this Thursday, the Democrats have had their own internal election.

Via Instapundit (courtesy of the WSJ Washington Wire):

As three Republicans candidates vie to replace Rep. Tom DeLay as House Majority Whip in an election Thursday, Democrats showed that anything can happen in a closed-ballot election in Washington.

Democrat Rep. John Larson of Connecticut won a startling election to become the fourth-ranking member of the House Democrats' leadership team.

Larson had just 18 publicly announced supporters heading into the election. Rep. Joseph Crowley of New York had 72 public supporters while Rep. Jan Schakowsky had 56. In the first round of voting, Mr. Larson received 60 votes; Crowley, 79; and Ms. Schakowsky, 56. Since no candidate won a majority of the votes, the top two vote recipients -- Mr. Larson and Mr. Crowley -- moved on to a second ballot. There, most of Ms. Schakowsky's supporters backed Mr. Larson -- and he won, 116-87.

Perhaps the hypocrisy was too much even for Democrats to have "St. Jan*" issuing press releases calling for honest leadership:

U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky, a Chief Deputy Democratic Whip, today released the following statement following the unveiling of the Congressional Democrats’ Honest Leadership and Open Government Act. In addition to supporting the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, Representative Schakowsky is a co-sponsor of the Special Interest Lobbying and Ethics Accountability Act.

Her last blog on her campaign site is entitled "D is for Disaster".

Jan "Tax Cheat" Schakowsky* (D-IL)

Unfortunately, D is for Democrat in Illinois, and she's not about to lose any elections here.

Nothing out of the ordinary in Illinois.

*Last August Schakowsky's husband pleaded guilty to two felony indictments on "tax violations and bank fraud for writing rubber checks and failing to collect withholding tax from an employee".And "Creamer, 58, a prominent Chicago political consultant, was accused of swindling nine financial institutions of at least $2.3 million while he ran a public interest group in the 1990s." The group, the Illinois Public Action Group, helped propel Schakowsky to elective office.. The congressperson co-signed the fraudulent tax returns.