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Source: Feds take [Illinois] Gov. Blagojevich into custody
Chicago Tribune ^ | 12/09/08

Posted on 12/09/2008 6:14:19 AM PST by KeyLargo

Edited on 12/09/2008 6:17:49 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

A source said today that Gov. Rod Blagojevich was taken into federal custody at his North Side home this morning. The U.S. attorney's office would not confirm the information, and a spokesman for the governor did not immediately return a phone call for comment.


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To: XR7

That toll booth is my #1 reason for Jobovich to go down.
Practically get into an accident trying to get over in order to be shaken down by the state! Worse design ever!
What happened to getting rid of those damn things anyway?
Oh Happy Day! Woohoo!


61 posted on 12/09/2008 6:32:46 AM PST by Snappy1MarineMom (Don't Blame me I voted for Keys)
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To: GrannyK

Living in Du Page county frustrating enough, I can’t imagine how downstaters do it.


62 posted on 12/09/2008 6:33:15 AM PST by retrokitten (I want to rock your gypsy soul, just like way back in the days of old- Into the Mystic)
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To: KeyLargo

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.


63 posted on 12/09/2008 6:33:23 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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To: penelopesire
Blagojevich sounds pretty unhinged at this point.

He sounds as though he's trying to block everything out. I suspect that's been part of his character all along.

64 posted on 12/09/2008 6:33:41 AM PST by bcsco
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To: jilliane

I live in Massachusetts. These are our choices, drunks, crooks and fags, clueless limpwrists Republicans, and the stupid and lazy.


65 posted on 12/09/2008 6:33:58 AM PST by Leisler ("Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. " Lenin)
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To: retrokitten

I do it by pulling my hair out whenever I hear Blago’s name.


66 posted on 12/09/2008 6:34:48 AM PST by lnzog (They want your money)
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To: dbacks
Do I really need the ?

Unfortunately, probably so.

67 posted on 12/09/2008 6:34:49 AM PST by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
the possibility that the process of choosing a Senate successor to President-elect Barack Obama could be tainted by pay-to-play politics.....

Like this would be a surprise to Illinois residents, be they 'rat or Rep.

68 posted on 12/09/2008 6:35:31 AM PST by prairie dog
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To: Leisler
I live in Massachusetts. These are our choices, drunks, crooks and fags, clueless limpwrists Republicans, and the stupid and lazy.

I guess it's good to know that we here in the People's Republic of Illinois aren't alone with those kind of choices.

69 posted on 12/09/2008 6:35:51 AM PST by Marathoner (The dream: 1-20-2013, hearing "I, Sarah Heath Palin, do solumnly swear...")
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To: pgkdan
Are there any Illinois politicians who aren’t either completely corrupt or completely incompetent?

Sure, I know three offhand who represent me. Not all politicians from Illinois are corrupt. It's the ones who are influenced by the Chicago/Cook County corruption who are the bad eggs. Unfortunately, they hold sway over Illinois.

70 posted on 12/09/2008 6:36:19 AM PST by bcsco
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To: KeyLargo

Still makes me wonder how this gun hating commie got elected in the first place.


71 posted on 12/09/2008 6:37:27 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Leisler

William G. Stratton In Office: 1953- 1961 INDICITED, ACQUITTED
Otto Kerner, Jr. In Office: 1961-1968 INDICITED, CONVICTED, IMPRISONED
Samuel H. Shapiro In Office: 1968-1969
Richard B. Ogilvie In Office: 1969-1973
Daniel Walker In Office: 1973-1977 INDICITED, CONVICTED, IMPRISONED
James R. Thompson In Office: 1977-1991
Jim Edgar In Office: 1991-1999
George H. Ryan In Office: 1999- 2003 INDICITED, CONVICTED, IMPRISONED
Rod R. Blagojevich In Office: 2003-Present SOON TO BE INDICTED?


72 posted on 12/09/2008 6:38:49 AM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: Dead Corpse
Still makes me wonder how this gun hating commie got elected in the first place.

I guarantee you post #69 answers your question.

73 posted on 12/09/2008 6:39:23 AM PST by Marathoner (The dream: 1-20-2013, hearing "I, Sarah Heath Palin, do solumnly swear...")
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To: pgkdan

No.


74 posted on 12/09/2008 6:39:56 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat."--E. Friesner)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Here's an article to Digg. Please ping the list.
75 posted on 12/09/2008 6:41:05 AM PST by jellybean (Who is John Galt? ~ Bookmark altfreerepublic.freeforums.org for when FR is down)
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To: KeyLargo

Busted!


76 posted on 12/09/2008 6:41:29 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: prairie dog
Drudge Link to Tribune Exclusive: "I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me," the governor said. Blagojevich made the remarks at a Monday morning visit to laid-off workers staging a sit-in at the Republic Windows & Doors plant on Goose Island.
77 posted on 12/09/2008 6:41:37 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: KeyLargo

This is a Patrick Fitzgerald case. I guess he isn’t the liberal saviour after all.


78 posted on 12/09/2008 6:41:47 AM PST by Taking Congress back in 2010
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To: arkady_renko

Yeah, those tapes have to be pretty incriminating. Blago is living in a dream world right now. His remarks show it. He’s trying to block everything out as if this is a bad dream (well, for his it is...).

I’m not as much shocked as surprised it has happened this quickly. Only because the government is usually ponderous in such things.


79 posted on 12/09/2008 6:42:03 AM PST by bcsco
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To: 1rudeboy

OMG! Hilarious!


80 posted on 12/09/2008 6:42:07 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (The enemy is in your heart, self respect robbed by self pity)
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