Posted on 12/09/2008 9:14:10 AM PST by redstates4ever
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wanted President-elect Barack Obama "to put something together…something big" in exchange for going along with Obama's choice to fill his vacant US Senate seat, according to an FBI affidavit unsealed following the Governor's stunning arrest.
"I've got this thing and it's f***ing golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for f***in' nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And I can always use it. I can parachute me there," Blagojevich said in a phone call secretly recorded by the FBI on November 5, the day after the election, according to the affidavit.
(snip)
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
I haven’t see it indicated, but who was in the market to buy?
I’d buy that for a dollar!
The article never mentions he is a Democrat.
That’s ABC News for you. Never fair.
As I understand it, Chicago politics is the real reason it got the nickname “the windy city” (in terms of average wind speed Boston is slightly higher)
Gee, the governor has such a flair for words.
I’ll be he writes odes in his free time!
Motherf**ker!
If this were a Republican, we’d already know the likely outcome. Being that it involves a Democrat this will be more akin to watching a Harry Houdini performance, where the audience keeps wondering how the protagonist is going to wiggle out of this predicament (while expecting that he will).
HEART WARMING
What a (in his words) f***ing, coarse street thug.
This little punk needs to go to jail, but he also needs a good honest punch in the nose.
"Seen in file photos are Tammy Duckworh, a disabled Iraq war veteran and currently the Illinois veteran affairs director, U.S. Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr., of Chicago and Jan Schakowsky, of Evanston, Ill., Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Illinois Senate President Emil Jones. The five have been mentioned as potential candidate to fill the seat of President-elect Barack Obama who said Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, he would resign from the Senate effective Sunday, Nov. 16. Under state law, Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich will name Obama's replacement he said he expects to make a decision by year's end."
ve·nal (vnl) adj.
1. a. Open to bribery; mercenary: a venal police officer. b. Capable of betraying honor, duty, or scruples for a price; corruptible.
2. Marked by corrupt dealings, especially bribery: a venal administration.
3. Obtainable for a price.
Another Demwit prick.
The Chicago way!
He sounds like a humble servant of the people. Mr Smith Goes To Washington, the 2008 version.
AP via Yahoo does
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081209/ap_on_re_us/blagojevich_corruption_probe
>>A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democratic governor was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps
I was reading in the paper (Boston Herald) just this morning that the son of the Hrrrrrevrerrrrrand JACK-sinn might be
appointed.
So was Zero to get a commission?
Amazing how BO emerged from Chicago politics unaware of all the corruption swirling around him. I guess he just didn’t notice it, like he never noticed the content of the Rev. Wright’s sermons.
Another of the MSM covering this story and failing to mention that Blagojevich is a Dem. At least they are consistent.
Wishful thinking.
Outrageous that this was covered up by the “Drive By” Media until after the election.
But, of course, the Mesiah was never involved.
RamS
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