East of St. Louis - Alorton, Illinois is an example of the problems with long-term black progressive rule. From Front Page:
The Most Corrupt Village in America
When the police stopped Luvina Mobley Smith, they found a pound of pot in her car and five EBT food stamp cards which drug dealers often take in payment for drugs. It would have been an ordinary enough story except that Smith, despite being a convicted felon, was also the Deputy Clerk of Alorton.
Luvina is the daughter of Callie Mobley, Alorton's former mayor, who had collected double her salary and served time in jail for income tax evasion. Mayor Mobley, who had been the mayor of Alorton for two decades, had been doing the same thing back to her days as liquor commissioner.
And it gets better -- here is just part of the butcher's bill:
Alorton's violent crime rate has been as high as ten times the national average. Its biggest employers are health care, fast food, welfare and education. The unemployment rate for black men is at 31%. Half the people in Alorton live below the poverty line. 70% of poor households consist of single mothers.
The village has the fourth highest poverty rate of any place in Illinois. Its corruption and misery are examples of what happens when the Democratic Party's power goes unchallenged.
Mayor Randy "Rambo' McCallum Sr. came into office telling cops, "I run this mother___" and ordered them to rob competing drug dealers and split the money with him. When drug dealers were busted, the seized drugs and money were brought to his house where he pocketed the money and resold the drugs.
McCallum Sr. stole so much money that there were no bank deposits for a year. When an undercover informant went to his house, he found crack cocaine on the kitchen table being prepped for sale.
Alorton's police chief, Michael Baxton Sr., set up surveillance cameras in the police station that he could monitor from home to alert Mayor McCallum when the seized drugs and money were coming in.
The police chief went down for stealing Xbox video games from the trunk of a stolen car telling another cop, "This ain't (expletive), I'm gonna put you on some real (expletive), teach you how to be real police."
Baxton Sr. had already been decertified for earlier felony convictions for theft and burglary and should not have even been serving as police chief.
His son Michael Baxton Jr. remained on the Alorton police force where he was hit with three Federal lawsuits for physically abusing people. He briefly became the police chief of East St. Louis until two black board members won a lawsuit because after they were harassed for supporting a more qualified white candidate for the job.
You want to know President Lyndon Baines Johnson's legacy? Alorton, Illinois
The breakdown of the Black family, the force-feeding of the culture of dependency and welfare. The crippling of the economy. There seems to be a strong culture of self-loathing that crops up on the left. Their only solution is to throw other-people's-money at it. Never their own -- when was the last time that some Hollywood mogul donated a couple million simoleans to an inner-city black school. (crickets)
I find it hard to believe that the Democrats are pushing for amnesty for the illegal immigrants -- they should know full well that it is people like the citizens of Alorton, Illinois that will be the most hurt. A nation with a staggering unemployment problem and we want to legitimize several tens of millions of new low-level workers?
