For those of you unfamiliar with the Ryan case, before Ryan became Governor, he was Illinois Secretary of State, in charge of (among other things), the Department of Motor Vehicles.
In 1994, a Baptist minister from Chicago was going with his wife and their six children to Milwaukee on Interstate 94. The van they were in was rear-ended by a semi and all the children were killed. During the investigation, it was discovered that the truck driver had a valid Illinois license, but could only speak Spanish. This was odd because the written test to get an Illinois truck driver's license is only given in English. So how did the man get his license?
An investigation was started, and it was quickly discovered that examiners in the DMV were accepting bribes in exchange for giving licenses to unqualified drivers. What infuriated people especially was that the reason the DMV examiners were taking the bribes was that they were expected to contribute very generously to Ryan's political war chest -- up to 10% of their salaries. So they were taking these bribes in large part to give (forced) campaign contributions to Ryan.
When Jesse White became Secretary of State, one of the first things he said was that he would not accept any campaign contributions from anyone who worked for him.