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An itinerant stable hand at Arlington Racetrack in Arlington Heights, IL was arrested Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 for having sex with a racehorse. Itinerant workers at Arlington, like most racetracks, live at the track, near the stables, behind the scenes, caring for the horses 24/7. Generally, these workers are foreign and travel from track to track, working at the tracks when they are running races.
This guy is charged with having sexual contact with a female horse named Buzz My Bell. At least it was a female horse. The stable hand, Esbin Dionel Cal-Orozco, 28, had his bond set at $ 25,000.00 for the class 4 felony.
I am not sure which is worse, the guy was charged with this activity or that we actually have had to make it a crime? Obviously, it has happened before.
The election is less than sixty days away. In Illinois, we have a chance to pick a person to replace President Obama in the Senate. I do not count Roland (wake me up when it’s over) Burris. In Delaware, they have the chance to replace Joe Biden in the Senate. There is a strong possibility both races will be won by the other party. That is giving the administration a vote of confidence.
In Delaware, the upset victory of the Tea Party candidate may have helped the Democrats keep that seat. Christine O’Donnell is perceived as unelectable in a statewide race against the other party. Her activist stance and lack of voting record make her a wild-card, crap-shoot candidate. It will be interesting to see if the Republicans provide her with enough financial support to make her a viable candidate or a punch-line in a joke in the future. History is full of candidates like her that stunningly win in the primary just to be quickly forgotten in the general election. We will see.
Illinois is a different story. The Republicans have strongly backed Mark Kirk, a five-term Congressman, for the seat. He won the primary as the party-backed candidate. The Republican Party is going all out to win this seat. Kirk is getting huge sums of money to run hard. Unfortunately, he is a liar, an admitted liar. One of his explanations was that he “misremembered wrongly” Even his explanations are a lie. His lies mostly deal with his military service. He bragged about his combat experience when he has none. He has served in the military; thank you for that but he apparently did it to pump up his electability, not to serve his country. To lie about your service record for personal gain is reprehensible. I am sure other lies he has told or bragged about will come out in the next six weeks. And I am equally sure Kirk will have a lie to explain them. He is not much of a choice and I generally vote Republican.
The Democrats have also strongly backed a candidate, Alexi Giannoulias, the State of Illinois Treasurer. He is a young man with a short voting record. He has a long list of accomplishments he takes credit for but few people agree with. He too has been caught in several significant lies during the campaign. The Democrats want to keep this seat bad enough, President Obama has come to Illinois to campaign for Giannoulias.
One piece of baggage Giannoulias cannot talk his way out of is his ties to a failed bank, owned by him and his family. The Federal government took control of the bank earlier this year. Giannoulias keeps saying he had nothing to do with the bank failing even though he earned over $100,000.00 a year from the bank. He must have done something to be paid. Another troubling aspect of his families bank and his work for it are the millions of dollars in loans granted to known organized crime figures. Some of the loans were made and funded while these people were under indictment. Some of the loans were for projects in Florida, making it hard for the bank to verity progress. Tony Reszko is one of the borrowers money was loaned to. He now sits in jail, convicted in his own case and a potential witness in the ‘Blago’ debacle. Giannoulias keeps saying he had nothing to do with the Mafia loans even though it was a family owned bank where he worked. He was not a teller. He worked in the loan department but every time a questionable loan comes up, Giannoulias says he was not involved. Who was? Perhaps the bank would not have failed and cost the taxpayers’ money if he had been doing his job.
I am sure a Chicago newspaper is sitting on a story detailing more questionable loans at his bank, just waiting until the election is closer before running the story.
It is too bad the ballot does not have a “None of the above” box to check for this race. One of these undeserving men will win while Illinois voters lose.
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