Dump Kjellander Now

I've said it before, and I'll say it again--the GOP needs to totally dump Bob Kjellander from any official position. John Kass today on the Rezko trial and the trial of the Illinois Combine, with this mention of Kjellander:

Kjellander, a friend of former White House adviser Karl Rove, remains a Republican National Committee bigshot who is planning the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in September.

Until recently, Kjellander was the treasurer of the Republican National Committee, even though he'd received $4.5 million in finder's fees for questionable bond deals with the Democratic Blagojevich administration.

One involved an $809,000 fee from an investment bank to Kjellander. According to Rezko court documents, Kjellander funneled $600,000 of that to a Rezko confidant and called it a loan and kept the other $209,000 for himself.

Who needs the Bush stimulus package with $hellander interest rates?

Kjellander told the Tribune he made the loan to the Rezko friend because "I got a very favorable interest rate. That loan was repaid before the due date and I made a very nice profit on the interest. ... I did nothing improper."

We need to totally clean house so we can move on--in Illinois as well as nationally. Honesty, transparency and spending taxpayer's money wisely is the way we win.