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Illinois Governor Taken Into Federal Custody
Fox News ^ | 9 Dec 2008

Posted on 12/09/2008 7:21:11 AM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested in Chicago Tuesday on two counts each of corruption charges relating to trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat. More at Fox News

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: caseofthemissingd; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; mediabias; obamanation; obamasenateseat; senateseatforsale
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To: spacejunkie
Really? I've seen very little evidence that he's corrupt.

Certainly he has some ties to sketchy people (though this is true of many people in politics), but I've seen no evidence that he's actually corrupt in a way that even approaches many Illinois politicians such as Blagojevich.

61 posted on 12/09/2008 8:03:44 AM PST by Arguendo
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

Wow. I just saw him on TV and he looks young. Is he even old enough to be governor....lol. He is going to have a very rough time in jail.


62 posted on 12/09/2008 8:04:28 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
Much like the Jefferson “Cold Cash” incident, he will keep his post for several year while the “investigation” is diffused and the incident is forgotten. (He's a Democrat you know...)
63 posted on 12/09/2008 8:05:43 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go?)
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To: napscoordinator

I think most states only require the governor to be 25 years old. I don’t know how old this scum is.


64 posted on 12/09/2008 8:06:22 AM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: Arguendo

Not corrupt? He made the 10 most corrupt politicians for 2007!

See here: http://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007

“Senator Barack Obama (D-IL): A “Dishonorable Mention” last year, Senator Obama moves onto the “ten most wanted” list in 2007. In 2006, it was discovered that Obama was involved in a suspicious real estate deal with an indicted political fundraiser, Antoin “Tony” Rezko. In 2007, more reports surfaced of deeper and suspicious business and political connections It was reported that just two months after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased $50,000 worth of stock in speculative companies whose major investors were his biggest campaign contributors. One of the companies was a biotech concern that benefited from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator purchased $5,000 of the company’s shares. Obama was also nabbed conducting campaign business in his Senate office, a violation of federal law.”


65 posted on 12/09/2008 8:08:00 AM PST by atlbelle44
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

You know the media is spinning this big time by telling us that Obama did not like the Governor and was not close to him....lol. How long did it take for them to say something like this.


66 posted on 12/09/2008 8:08:51 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Arguendo

He either is or is not... I want the TRUTH newb.

LLS


67 posted on 12/09/2008 8:09:35 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! so sue me!)
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To: napscoordinator
Major/Minor Garrett reported from FAUX that Blog and Dear Leader only knew of each other and that Blog supported DL
aka “association dba Wright”

Spin Doctors... hate ‘em

Mike Church is having a heyday with this on Sirius

68 posted on 12/09/2008 8:21:03 AM PST by Eagle50AE (Pray for our Armed Forces.)
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

Busted ittttt


69 posted on 12/09/2008 8:21:15 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: atlbelle44

That list is from Judicial Watch and thus has virtually no credibility. Given their inclusion of Larry Craig, it’s apparent that they don’t even know the meaning of the word “corrupt” in the political sense.


70 posted on 12/09/2008 8:23:38 AM PST by Arguendo
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To: Arguendo

Are you saying that sweetheart mortgages and insider trading (all made available due to the individual’s position of power) is not corruption in your mind?


71 posted on 12/09/2008 8:31:22 AM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: Arguendo

I guess the Grand Jury might agree. Mr. Obama is corrupt!

Breaking on Drudge - GRAND JURY SUBPOENAS ISSUED ON REZKO/OBAMA LAND DEAL

http://www.drudgereport.com/

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145544/posts


72 posted on 12/09/2008 8:35:00 AM PST by atlbelle44
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

Fasten your seatbelts and get out the popcorn—this is just the beginning of what we are going to see over the next four years. Obama’s time in office is going to make Clinton look like he was teaching Sunday school lessons to Monica in the Oval Office.


73 posted on 12/09/2008 8:35:10 AM PST by Burkean
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To: atlbelle44

It will be interesting to see how that plays out. So far I haven’t seen much evidence of anything, but Fitzgerald is an ambitious and aggressive prosecutor and if there’s anything there he’s as likely as anyone to find it.


74 posted on 12/09/2008 8:40:35 AM PST by Arguendo
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To: Burkean

Fasten your seatbelts and get out the popcorn—this is just the beginning of what we are going to see over the next four years. Obama’s time in office is going to make Clinton look like he was teaching Sunday school lessons to Monica in the Oval Office.


Obama just lived in Chicago. It was only Rahm Immanuel who took the congressional seat of the governor. This has nothing to do with Obama. He can be Chief of staff Obama but obama did not know all those things. About his replacement obama had no input. He was busy with his transition.

I am sure, we will hear all these crap. Hope, will wake up to this stupid old “Cook Count” politics


75 posted on 12/09/2008 8:43:51 AM PST by Ranjit
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To: tatsinfla
just as corrupte as 3rd world nations anymore

Quit insulting third world governments

76 posted on 12/09/2008 8:54:03 AM PST by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

This is impossible!!

Queen Pelosi promised to rid us of the corruption in politics well over two years ago.


77 posted on 12/09/2008 9:11:45 AM PST by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: central_va

your right, i apologize.....


78 posted on 12/09/2008 9:19:37 AM PST by tatsinfla
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To: Don Corleone

After this he might be vacating on his seat.


79 posted on 12/09/2008 9:50:38 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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Bwahahaha!! I want a prize for my prediction in post #54: "I’m sure PEO will be ‘deeply saddened’ by the news."

PEO's response to this whole corruption mess: "Like the rest of the people of Illinois I am saddened and sobered by the news that came out of the U.S.. Attorneys office today." (Source)

When do I get my check, PEO?! LOL! :-)
80 posted on 12/09/2008 12:43:59 PM PST by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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