AP – In this Dec. 10, 2008 photo Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill., pauses during his remarks at a news conference …
Posted on 12/12/2008 6:25:53 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
ABC News CHICAGO – Businessmen with ties to both Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson discussed raising $1 million for Blagojevich to help persuade him to appoint Jackson to President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, according to a published report.
Citing unnamed sources, the Chicago Tribune reports in a story for Friday's editions that businessman Raghuveer Nayak and Blagojevich aide Rajinder Bedi told attendees at an Oct. 31 meeting that they needed to raise the money for the governor to ensure Jackson's appointment.
"Raghu said he needed to raise a million for Rod to make sure Jesse got the seat," an unidentified source who attended the meeting told the Tribune. Blagojevich also attended the meeting, which was sponsored by Nayak, an Oak Brook businessman.
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Why can’t Hussein wave his hand and make all this go away????
AP – In this Dec. 10, 2008 photo Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill., pauses during his remarks at a news conference …
...and somehow JJ Jr. didn’t know about this?
Crap a double post. News breaks fast. Im sure someone will delete this one but it is nice that CBS and Yahoo-AP are actually REPORTING the news massively.This is good news.
First he has to raise his hand (hand raising scheduled for 1/20/09). Then he'll declare the whole mess a "republican witch hunt" and issue pardons of everyone connected to it. Then he'll pretend to be sick and Biden will take the reigns of power for a couple of days and pardon Obama.
And they all lived happily ever after.
I have to admit I am not following this story closely. But, this looks pretty bad. But, then I thought ties to terrorists looked bad. I doubt any of this scandal is going to stick to 0bamanation.
Can you imagine that?
At some point, though, Obama will no "friends" left to sacrifice.
Nice. Thanks.
I am actually shocked. JJJ was SO PASSIONATE about his innocence it was stupid. It is like those surrounding Obama are stupid and believe if you tell a lie SO BLATENT and often enough you can get away with anything!!!
This will continue to get out of control.
No JJ Jr. did not know because he was spending so much time campaigning to get the U.S. Senate appointment. Still is for that matter.
He can’t be expected to keep track of everything when immersed in such lobbying.
That is a dogma of their faith.
I think Blago is about to find out why trying to hold the Tribune editorial staff hostage was a very bad idea. You know they will stop at nothing to wreck him as payback.
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Shocking... and totally unexpected.
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Somehow I missed that part? What was he trying to make the Tribune staff do (or not do)?
If Rahm Emanuel is cooperating with the Feds and helping with the “sting”, his involvement with Blago may be “erased”.
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