Posted on 01/29/2009 10:32:43 PM PST by malkee
On his first day as a private citizen, now unemployed and with a federal indictment bearing down on him, Rod Blagojevich should stick to his routine, put on his track suit and go for a run.
He usually runs 5 miles at a brisk pace, but the new route I'm proposing would take about 8 miles. He's in shape for it, and he's got the time.
From his Northwest Side home he should run south on Ashland, to Lincoln Avenue, and head southeast on his way downtown.
His wife, Patti, can drive the car and meet him there with a bag containing a nice blue suit, something serious, dark tie, white shirt, shined shoes.
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As he runs he can think of how he made disgraceful history all on his own, as the first corrupt Illinois governor to be impeached and booted from office. He can consider how he first descended into the maelstrom by breaking with the man who made him, his ward boss father-in-law, Ald. Dick Mell (33rd), and how after that angry public fight in 2005 he became a free agent without the protection of the organization.
Rod will run past the Biograph Theater, site of one of the great untrue myths of Chicago, which says that a woman in red pointed out bank robber John Dillinger to the FBI. It wasn't the woman in red. It was the Chicago Outfit that tipped them. At least that's the story the wise guys tell, and I believe them, the Outfit giving up a freelancer who had no protection, no organization, a freelancer like Dillinger bringing unnecessary heat.
There's a certain Chicago logic to it: When freelancers bring heat to organizations, they become problems. But problems can be solved.
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Excellent last line to the article. Most excellent.
But do they really want to hear?
I’m wondering if anyone still believes Fitzgerald has it in for Rahm or anyone else in the administration?
Blago lives west of Ashland ave, not north of it. To get to Lincoln Avenue via Ashland he would literally have to run past Lincoln and then double back, running about a mile and a half out of his way. It’s obvious Kass hasn’t even been to the neighborhood, but at least he could pull up Mapquest!
That is really interesting.
“And as for some of those friends of mine in the state Senate, Dr. King said, that in the end, you remember not the words of your enemies, but the silence of your friends,” Blagojevich said.
Ah, the plot thickens...
Four miles per hour isn’t brisk, unless he runs 7 or 8mph.
I get back into shape I can maybe top out at 15mph.
I run every day typically at 6.5 - 8 mph. There is no way you can run 15mph, that’s a 4 minute pace. If you could keep that pace for 8 miles, you would be olympic and world level class athlete. I think you’re BS’ing us.
The world record for two miles is just under 8 minutes. It’s generally believed the guy who did it was doped to the gills.
Great article. Things might get even more interesting right about now..........
Free Blago.
I said when I get back into shape, I could top out at 15mph, that being the fastest I could run.
I remember doing 12mph on a treadmill and still feeling like I had more speed to give. Which is why I’d put the incline up a bunch.
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