i lived in Illinois for most of my life. I have now escaped to Florida, thank goodness. I watched Blago, whose major “sin” was being a flamboyant big mouth talker, being railroaded on basically trumped up charges by his fellow Dems, who wanted him out of the way because he was a rogue Dem that they couldn’t control.
It was Comey and his IL cronies that went after blago and screwed him over for alleging offering to sell a Senate seat (”it’s friggin golden”) that never took place other than big talk on Blago’s part. Blago did no more or less than any other IL politician by wheeling and dealing, in other words, practicing politics. Blago was set up and gotten rid of by his fellow Dems.
Blago got a totally raw deal and I hope Trump pardons him at his first opportunity to do so. Blago was ruined by the very same cadre of like minded Dem lawyers that have been going after Trump. Blago should never have been given a 14 year sentence just for being mouthy; he has children that have grown up without their father, while murderers in IL get 1/3 or less of the sentence that Blago got. It makes me sick, and this from a former conservative former citizen of the corrupt State of IL. Free Blago!
The Blago-bashers on this thread obviously didn't live where I did. If they had, they'd know that his impeachment and the destruction of his life was a mini-dress rehearsal of the Trump impeachment, led by the vast state-wide tentacles of the corrupt Chicago Daley machine, slavering federal prosecutors and the Chicago media.
Blogo was no Miss Goody Two-Shoes by any means, but the punishment didn't fit his alleged "crimes"....and he's still in prison for all these many years, while murderers who roam Chicago's South Side slaughtering dozens of humans including children each and every week are free to roam or they get off easy because the still-omnipresent corrupt Democrat machine, the Feds, the Illinois liberal-dominated courts and the enemedia pay lip service to law and order in this city war zone but do nothing about enforcing it.
Blogo has served enough time....I pray President Bush will grant him a pardon so he can go home to be with his wife and kids again.
Leni