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King Con Blago puts our hacks to shame
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com

You know that proposal to change back the law on open Senate seats in Massachusetts so the governor gets the right to fill any vacancy - never mind!

Even the dimmest hack in the Legislature would not want to be recorded as voting in favor of what would now be known as the “Blagojevich bill.” The ink was barely dry on the criminal complaint yesterday before Sen. Dick Durbin was demanding the Illinois Assembly change their state’s Senate succession law to make it like ours - with a special election within 60 days.

Sorry, Deval. Your homeboy’s messed it up big time for you. He might as well have put Barack’s Senate seat up for sale on eBay. Those North Side guys can’t do anything right - just ask Al Capone.

We in Boston take such great pride in our municipal corruption, but we are mere pikers compared to this “crime spree,” as the U.S. attorney described it. Illinois’ big-time crooked governors trump our small-time crooked House speakers. Obama said he wanted to hit the ground running - who knew he was talking about scandals? And by the way, how can the Democrats call Patrick Fitzgerald a hack? How can they accuse this prosecutor of a political vendetta? This is the guy who convicted Scooter Libby.

Do you think U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald has job security in the new Democrat administration?

What a difference between Boston and Chicago. We have a state senator who stuffs cash into her bra; they have a governor putting a U.S. Senate seat out for bids.

In Chicago, it’s “pay to play.” In Boston, it’s “pay to Playtex.”

This guy Blagojevich - did you see him at the window factory in Chicago on Monday with the laid-off workers? Black turtleneck, black leather jacket. He looked like Joe Pesci as Tony “the Ant” Spilotro in “Casino.”

Memo to Gov. Blagojevich: Dress like the governor, not like the governor’s bagman.

This guy is an embarrassment. Forget Abe Lincoln rolling over in his grave - Sal DiMasi and John Rogers are stunned by his shocking lack of professionalism. This is so bad even Blago’s fellow Crook County Democrats kicked him to the curb like he was . . . a Republican.

Don’t make no waves, don’t back no losers. Those are the rules in Chicago, and Blago broke ’em.

I was in Chicago last month, and everyone was speculating how soon the governor would be indicted. Everybody knew, but Blagojevich just kept wheeling and dealing, with his office bugged, throwing out more f-bombs than Larry Baione when he was drunk with Ralphie Chong on North Margin Street. Blago wondered aloud whether he would have more juice as an indicted senator than as indicted governor. He schemed to have editorial writers fired from a dying newspaper that just went into bankruptcy.

Editorial writers!

Last question: Who will be the first con pardoned by President Obama? Too late to get in a bet in Vegas - that one’s off the board.

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