Would I like to someday become a U.S. senator, of course I would. I would be a fool not to want to join the Senate," [Danny K. Davis] told the Defender. "However, I would not accept the seat if Gov. [Rod Blagojevich] appointed me. Too much damage has been done for me to accept it from him now. "My fiends said I should run, but then I have other friends who said I shouldn't run in a special election," [Roland Bums] said. "I will leave it up to the people of Illinois to decide if I should run, but I am definitely interested in the position." "Yes, I am interested but no I would not accept the seat if appointed by Gov. Blagojevich," she said. "As far as running in a special election, I would have to see what happens and make a decision at that time." The once popular U.S. Senate seat vac...
... been accused by federal authorities in a criminal complaint of trying to auction the seat off to the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - For Barack Obama, the explosive scandal in his home state involving his Senate seat presents an unwanted diversion but no immediate political danger, analysts say. Even though allegations against Gov. Rod Blagojevich describe his desire for a deal with the president-elect, the criminal complaint offers no evidence that Obama or his aides were aware of potentially illegal offers.
What has been most surprising, however, is the shameless, naked ambition being exhibited as [Rod Blagojevich]'s career twists in the wind. The ink on the criminal complaint was hardly dry when Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn stepped up to call for his former running mate, and former friend, to step down. It is a self-serving call, one that directly benefits him. Quinn seems to be supporting every possible scenario being offered up to rid the state of Blagojevich. He wants to be governor. He wants to appoint a senator, and have a special election, and he wants Blagojevich to step down, and he supports impeachment, and doesn't mind that Attorney General Lisa Madigan wants to get the state Supreme Court to rule Blagojevich "disabled. That's why the operative word is "taint." Everyone who ever spent an...
... of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, now awaiting retrial on various criminal counts t... derived from the federal criminal complaint that led to Blagojevich's removal from office in J...
A network news producer based in New York wanted to get my reaction to the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, except that she had a problem. She was reading the criminal complaint while she was trying to talk to me. She couldn't stop gasping. "I'm sorry," she said. "This is ... unbelievable! That's OK, I assured her, "Take your time. I'm a Chicago journalist. I am accustomed to the unbelievable."
SPRINGFIELD - While many Democrats were elated with the election of Barack Obama, the elevation of Illinois' junior senator to the White House on Nov. 4 appears to have irked Gov. Rod Blagojevich. In the 78-page criminal complaint filed against the Illinois governor Tuesday, Blagojevich uses foul language in multiple instances to describe the president-elect.
SPRINGFIELD - The daughter of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's chief legislative nemesis asked the state's high court Friday to strip the governor of his powers. Relying on an obscure court rule, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan called on the high court to determine if Blagojevich is capable of carrying out his duties in the wake of a federal criminal complaint that accuses the Chicago Democrat of corruption.
Since the governor did not like certain editors on the editorial page of the Chicago Tribune, he wanted them axed by the financiers of the paper. That respected editorial page has been calling for the governor's resignation and impeachment. One of the paper's financial backers was reported to have told the governor's team that there were some layoffs coming and that "section," meaning the editorial department, would be gutted. Well, even if the Tribune Company was contemplating such political maneuvers for financial reward (that would eventually be exposed anyway in a story) to fire some of its editors, they have now been put on alert with the public watching and would do anything to save face. If the tactic was to use layoffs to remove those editors, they will now have to resort to som...
... a key element disclosed in the federal criminal complaint against the now unpopular governor of Il...
When Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich committed $8 million in state money to a local children's hospital this fall, federal authorities said he wasn't going to let the precious dollars out of his hands so easily. He demanded a $50,000 campaign contribution from the hospital's chief executive in return. It's among the various accusations against Mr. Blagojevich, who was named last week in a federal criminal complaint on charges of trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's now-vacant U.S. Senate seat.
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...-Charge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) in Chicago; Thomas... those that were lodged in the criminal complaint filed in December when Blagojevich and Harris were...
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