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Reid pressured Blagojevich not to appoint Jackson Jr. to Obama’s U.S. Senate seat
Sun Times ^
| 1-02-09
| NATASHA KORECKI, CHRIS FUSCO AND LYNN SWEET
Posted on 01/02/2009 9:13:24 PM PST by HD1200
Days before Gov. Blagojevich was charged with trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, top Senate Democrat Harry Reid made it clear who he didn’t want in the post: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Danny Davis or Emil Jones.
Rather, Reid called Blagojevich to argue he appoint either state Veterans Affairs chief Tammy Duckworth or Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Sources say the Senate majority leader pushed against Jackson and Davis — both democratic congressmen from Illinois — and against Jones — the Illinois Senate president who is the political godfather of President-elect Barack Obama — because he did not believe the three men were electable. He feared losing the seat to a Republican in a future election.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 111th; blago; blagojevich; bleepgate; jessejacksonjr; jjj; obama; obamatransitionfile; reid
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No wonder fitzgerald wants 90 more days...reid was tampering with the selection of our senator selection
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:13:25 PM PST
by
HD1200
To: HD1200
Apparently Harry Reid is a racist. Wanted to keep BO's seat from going to one of several blacks being considered.
Hope he is clubbed over the head with the race card.
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:18:16 PM PST
by
Lawgvr1955
(You can never have too much cowbell !!)
To: HD1200
Could ole Harry be nabbed in this? We can surely hope he finally gets his.
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:20:09 PM PST
by
utahson
To: utahson
Looks like Harry was caught on the Blago wiretaps...
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:22:13 PM PST
by
jimbo123
To: Lawgvr1955
Apparently Harry Reid is a racist. Wanted to keep BO's seat from going to one of several blacks being considered.Let's see. All of the candidates Reid was rejecting are black men. Both of the candidates Reid was supporting are white women and one of them is handicapped. It's clear that Reid favors certain disadvantaged groups over others. Racism AND gender bias.
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:25:48 PM PST
by
Philo1962
(Iraq is terrorist flypaper. They go there to die.)
To: jimbo123
heh heh, even if he didn’t say anything out of line, ole dingy Harry has got to have been defecating in his drawers over the possibility of THIS coming out!
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:27:13 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: HD1200
No wonder fitzgerald wants 90 more days...reid was tampering with the selection of our senator selection Not at all surprised. Birds of a feather.......
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:27:44 PM PST
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: hoosiermama
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:37:30 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: HD1200
I hope whoever is running against Reid for the Senate seat has the guts to go for the throat.
Enough of this “honorable campaign” horse manure.
To: Lancey Howard
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:44:10 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Lancey Howard
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posted on
01/02/2009 9:46:38 PM PST
by
PGalt
To: Lawgvr1955
Of course he is racist, that doesn’t surprise me in the least.
To: HD1200
Wow! Reid put the kabosh on 3 blacks and pushed 2 whites.
Doesn’t sound good for Reid, especially with Reid coming out of a racist background.
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posted on
01/02/2009 10:01:13 PM PST
by
cookcounty
("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
To: HD1200
Dare I dream that the Congressional Black Caucus will hammer Reid?
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posted on
01/02/2009 10:10:47 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: HD1200
Uh oh, cat fight among the metro sexual girl men.
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posted on
01/02/2009 10:10:53 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: HD1200
Hmmmm. Shouldn’t we investigate good old Harry now? He has certainly called for enough investigations himself. We could investigate Pelosi right along with him.
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posted on
01/02/2009 10:12:11 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: PGalt
Inside word is that the Union members in Nevada casinos won't vote for Reid again.
It seems "Change" is a bug the Rats didn't know would addict voters.
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posted on
01/02/2009 10:18:59 PM PST
by
MaxMax
(I'll welcome death when God calls me. Until then, the fight is on)
To: HD1200
HARRY REID TO BLACK AMERICA...
GET IN THE BACK OF THE BUS!
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posted on
01/02/2009 10:20:15 PM PST
by
montag813
(www.FreepShop.com)
To: Lawgvr1955
"Hope he is clubbed over the head with the race card. "
Has anybody heard anything from the Congressional Black Caucus on the Dem's plans to block Burris from being seated? Did I miss a thread on FR about it?
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posted on
01/02/2009 10:45:12 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: HD1200
This just keeps getting better and better....
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