I find it interesting that polls showed more than 50 percent of likely voters considered Peter Fitzgerald a man of high ethical standards. He bankrolled a vicious smear campaign against incumbent Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun with millions of dollars of his inherited wealth, while speaking (actually, while having others speak for him) only in the vaguest generalities about what he would do if elected senator.
As a matter of fact, anyone who bothered to call his campaign office was informed that Fitzgerald had no position papers and would not until after the election.
A candidate with no position?
As an Illinois legislator, Fitzgerald consistently voted against the working men and women of Illinois almost all of the time. Although I am pro-life, I feel that lawmakers who intend to force women to bear children are hypocrites when they fight legislation designed to help people afford to raise these same children.
In another era, Fitzgerald would have been a member of the Federalist Party, which felt that the “common” people were not capable of self-government, and that those with wealth knew what was best for the rest of us.
Ethics? Hardly.
