Posted on 12/11/2008 6:07:03 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
Patti Blagojevich's father, sister and brother are refuting the foul-mouthed portrait that's been drawn of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's wife since his arrest, saying the first lady has been living in a pressure cooker.
Chicago Alderman Dick Mell, state Representative-elect Deborah Mell and Rich Mell told the Chicago Sun-Times and NBC5 in an exclusive interview Wednesday that profanity-laced comments recorded by federal prosecutors don't reflect who Patti Blagojevich really is.
"That is absolutely not my sister," Deborah Mell said. "Patti is a mother, a sister and a devoted wife.
"She is particularly protective of her family."
In a complaint released Tuesday, prosecutors say the 52-year-old Blagojevich plotted to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. In the criminal complaint against him, his 43-year-old wife emerges in recorded phone conversations as a scheming woman who tried to punish those who got in her way.
According to the complaint, Patti Blagojevich was the voice in the background spewing an ugly suggestion to "just fire" some newspaper editors if the Tribune Co. hoped for state assistance to sell Wrigley Field, the storied home of the Chicago Cubs.
"Hold up that (expletive) Cubs (expletive)," she says as her husband is talking on the telephone. "(Expletive) them."
Patti Blagojevich's family acknowledged the harsh language contained on the recordings but said those words were uttered at a stressful time as both she and her husband were under federal scrutiny.
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“She is typical of executive wives I ran across over the years in the business world. They wear their husbands authority on their “badge”. the rule is if you p*ss them off, it is considered p*ssing off their executive husband.”
I’ve read similar behavior attributed to Netanyahu’s wife, although, she was a flight attendant, not an executive. That was a long time ago, though.
"that's right, we raised her with #%#@&*! every *&&%^$#@! DAY so she was in a &^*%$$#@! Pressure Cooker since she creawled out of her momma's womb!"
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