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Thomme is right!
George Ryan: Governor of Illinois from 1998 to 2002. Had Springfield TV host and gun rights activist Tom Shafer arrested 13 times; no convictions. Currently cooling his heels in federal prison in Indiana, where he receives a card and flowers every year on his birthday from Tom Shafer.
Jack Ryan: Ran against Barack Obama for U.S. Senate back before Obama had transcended the politics of the past. Had been married to Jeri Ryan, the woman who made cyborg zombies sexy again. Their sealed divorce documents got unsealed in time for the press to find out that Jeri Ryan had accused Jack Ryan, through her attorneys, of taking her to a sex club and asking her to join in sex with other people. The GOP leadership that had just spent years protecting George Ryan (that would be Andy "The Outsider" McKenna) decided that it didn't have the sand to stand up and say "Jack Ryan's past sexual relations with his ex-wife are irrelevant. Next question."
Jim Ryan: Career prosecutor. Played a key role in railroading an innocent man named Rolando Cruz onto death row. Has never apologized for that as far as I know. Later, as Attorney General, tried to railroad a bunch of people trying to sell guns legally, but they were all outside his jurisdiction and he was facing entrapment claims if he had gone forward anyway. As Thomme noted, Ryan's personal life has been tragic. He himself beat cancer, and his wife survived a heart attack, but his daughter died of a brain tumor in 1997 and his son committed suicide with a gun in 2007. It's hard not to feel for the tragedies the man has suffered, but as a politician he's a disaster.
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