Wow, the charges against Blago look pretty devastating:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145500/posts
I wonder how they’ll fill Obama’s Senate seat now assuming that Blago doesn’t resign (which he won’t, at least not if it isn’t part of a deal)? Can a federal court enjoin a governor accused of bribery in the appointment of a U.S. Senator from making an appointment to the Senate? Maybe the feds can transport Blago outside the state so that Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn becomes acting gov. and picks the Senator or (less controversial) call for a quick special election.
BTW, I think that Illinois Republicans could do a lot worse than having Patrick Fitzgerald run for the U.S. Senate. I’m not saying that I like Fitzgerald or forgive him for his behavior during the Plame investigation, but running an “outsider” who fights corruption may be our only chance of winning that Senate seat now that it is unlikely that the Democrats will appoint someone controversial to the seat.
I think there needs to be pressure now for a special election.
Shouldn’t this article now read JJ Jr touts banks statement to Blagojevich?
Key language from the ABC News story:
The FBI affidavit said Blagojevich had been told by an adviser “the president-elect can get Rod Blagojevich’s wife on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect’s pick to the Senate.”
Told by two other advisers he has to “suck it up” for two years, the FBI says it heard Blagojevich complain he has to give this “motherf***er [the president-elect] his senator. F*** him. For nothing? F*** him.”
The governor is heard saying he will pick another candidate “before I just give f***ing [Senate Candidate l] a f***ing Senate seat and I don’t get anything.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6424985&page=1