Believe it or not it was one year ago today (December 9, 2008) that FBI agents knocked on Rod Blagojevich's front door and opened the final chapter in the former governor's troubled tenure in office.
Political science professor Kent Redfield said it could be a decade or more before the state is cured of its "Blagojevich hangover."
The University of Illinois at Springfield professor says voters will have to find new faith in new leaders. He said Blagojevich did so much damage that voters may have a hard time trusting any elected official.
Redfield's comments were featured in a December 8, 2009, edition of the Quad-Cities Dispatch-Argus.
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