In Illinois, there’s always an angle — even when it comes to cleaning up political corruption.

Back in December, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested by the feds for allegedly trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat. The embarrassing headlines drove the legislature to impeach Blago and remove him from office.

Now, the new governor, Democrat Patrick Quinn, wants to cleanse the state’s reputation by passing new campaign-finance restrictions that would, conveniently, give him a leg up in next year’s election campaign. They won’t change the tone or substance of Illinois politics, but they would ensnare candidates for state office in the same kind of regulatory morass now in effect at the federal level.

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