He violated it to begin with and his bad decision set political financial land mines for all of his successor Governors regardless of who they were to be. The imposition of the "Edgar Ramp" was how the pension mess all started and without Edgar's great idea we would not be in the mess we are today. Maybe it is good that Edgar teaches at the U of I. He can teach students how to lay political land mines in order to make themselves look good at the expense of the future citizens of Illinois.