Meet Your New At Large Councilman... George Jacob

I sat up in bed in the middle of the night and realized I had broken the first rule of Peoria politics: Follow the money.

Clearly the new law allowing liquor license holders to sit on the City Council was done for Peoria. The timing is WAY too obvious. No one tried to hide this fact, in fact, Leitch was happy to own up to it. (When the time comes, remind me to vote Shadid and Leitch out of office.)

Pat Sullivan would have been a good at-large council person, he has done a lot for riverfront development and was even willing to divest from his popular bar. I thought for sure that long time friend Ardis would gift him his seat.

But since when has doing good, being good, and wanting to do more good counted for crap in Peoria?

Follow the money.

Of course they are going to choose the guy who was given his business by Daddy. Of course they're going to choose someone who hasn't done anything for the community except write checks. The biggest hint was Leitch. Follow the money. Follow the campaign money.

So, welcome Mr. Jacob, we look forward to you furthering your beer distribution business at the expense of ordinary citizens.

Suckers.