New Illinois Governor

Disgraced Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was impeached in a unanimous Illinois Senate vote yesterday. So he's finally out. The new Governor is Pat Quinn. Turn out that he's Catholic. Usually Catholic and Democrat ends up a disappointing combination. But lets hope that's not the case here.

From Time:
In a state so plagued by cronyism and shady self-dealing that the head of the FBI here didn't hesitate to call Illinois one of the — if not the — most corrupt states in the nation, Lieut. Governor Pat Quinn is considered something of a Goody Two-Shoes.
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Cut from the mold of a 1970s post-Watergate maverick politician, Quinn has long been viewed as a serious-minded, if eccentric, reformer. In his 30s, after graduating from Georgetown and Northwestern, he tried to amend the state constitution to allow residents to enact laws through referendums. He once urged people to inundate former governor James Thompson's office with 40,000 tea bags to beat back postelection pay hikes. These days, he draws attention to the cause of veterans by hosting a website called Operation Homefront. (Meanwhile, he slips into the funerals of soldiers almost unnoticed.)

"He's unpretentious, thoughtful, no show," says Kevin Conlon, a political consultant here who was state chair of Howard Dean's presidential bid four years ago. "He's this Irish Catholic, zealous guy who never lost that passion from his young years as a lawyer and politician. It's a calling."