SALINE CO., Ill. - The glee we all felt over the neatness of the Shawnee National Forest being engraved on a U.S. Mint coin was kind of dampened when a couple of Saline County's smarmiest turned up at a commemoration/announcement event today.
Here's the coin, so you can feel the joy before it gets messed up:
Nice, huh? It's Camel Rock, for those of you who don't know...or fell off the rocks at Garden of the Gods before you could get to see it, if you're from out of the area.
And here's the reason it got messed up, at the event at Southeastern Illinois College outside of Harrisburg today:
Look..in the middle...with the balding head... Mom! Dad! Don't touch it...it's...Eric...!
First, it was former Harrisburg mayor/now disgraced former Illinois Prisoner Review Board member Eric Gregg, who apparently doesn't understand that he's disgraced and that the public doesn't exactly want to see him...but he evidently wanted to be seen. You know. None of this stuff being written about him is true, lalalalaaaa.
Then, it was another Saline County has-been, John B. Jones, former funeral home director wannabe, hobnobber with ChickenBob, and now just another Theft felon:
That's John B. with the white hair, on the left, back to the camera. Must've known someone was taking pics.
Jones, apparently not having suffered too much after his stint in DOC, has gained back all his weight he lost prepping for prison. He, too, has no concept of shame, and apparently figured everybody would just forget that little dipping-into-the-pre-need-funeral-till thing he did for years but whom investigators could only go back seven on, this back in 2009-10, this only after an extensive expose in the print version of Disclosure brought it to the public's attention. WTG, John B. Show the public that it never really mattered to you that you took hard-earned money from little old guys and little old ladies and put it in your pocket so you could procreate with a woman in Springfield while your wife stayed home with the kids! woot!
We're sorry people of this ilk showed up at the festivities today. It really IS neat that So. Ill. is on a coin. Apparently, however, some (see those above) hold that fact in about as much regard as the worth of a quarter...and their presence speaks to it.
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