Ryan's '98 rival Poshard feels vindicated

After being portrayed as a negative campaigner, Democrat GlennPoshard said he feels vindicated that some of the same broadcorruption charges he leveled against George Ryan in 1998 are now thebasis for indictments against the governor's political fund and twotop campaign aides.

Poshard, who narrowly lost to Ryan in the 1998 governor'scampaign, accused Ryan of turning a blind eye toward a corruptdriver's license system and misusing state employees and stateresources.

"I am thankful in a sense that the federal investigators have atleast said we weren't telling a lie . . . that we weren't just beingnegative, and there were things there that were covered up," Poshardsaid.

"I don't know that we could have done anything more than we did.It's just nobody believed us. I wasn't trying to be negative or run apejorative type of campaign."