So it really IS a Black Seat.
LMAO. Blago might be mentally imbalanced, but this was a brilliant political move. It also exposes Dems for the hypocrites that they are. White guilt, anyone? Game on. Bravo Blago!
Grab the popcorn and enjoy.
A couple of weeks ago she said he wouldn’t nominate anyone, since he expected the Senate would reject whoever he nominated. But. But, would the U.S. Senate reject a Negro? Blago could have nominated O.J. Simpson, who could have run for POTUS and won, by the way. I could be wrong, but I think they call the thing ‘white guilt’. Zimbabwe welcomes you.
Appointment of Former Attorney General Roland Burris Urged for Role as Overseer in Union Administration.
Business Wire, Jan 18, 2003
CHICAGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 18, 2003
Chicago Laborers’ Union Agrees to Unprecedented Moves
to Guarantee Integrity and Confidence in Leadership
One of the nation’s largest unions, the Laborers’ International Union of North America, was urged Friday to appoint former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to oversee administration of Chicago’s Local 1001 as part of a voluntary reform agreement. Laborers’ Local 1001 represents nearly 3,000 municipal government employees.
http://www.thelaborers.net/LOCALS/LU1001/appointment_of_burris.htm How clean can he be if a union wanted him to serve as cleaner?
Roland is such a yawn that this is really the only way he could get another office in Illinois. He’s also not smart enough to say “no thanks”.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! They are going to refuse to seat an accomplished black guy. Well done, Blago.
Complex Web Links Consultants, Banks, and Illinois Issuer ... $10.00 - SourceMedia - Alacra Store - Oct 3, 2003 Kjellander also has ties to developer Antoin Rezko, a top Blagojevich ... earlier this year hired Roland Burris' firm Burris & Lebed Consulting with a ...
The switch earlier this year from a Republican to a Democratic administration in Illinois -- and the state's subsequent decision to sell a record $## billion of taxable general obligation pension bonds -- led a handful of firms with...
Might be an interesting read if someone can afford it.
The Senate will not seat Roland Burris if Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich attempts to appoint him, a Democratic leadership aide said. Majority Leader Harry Reid views Burris as "unacceptable," the aide said.
You go Rod! Don’t let the Nattering Nabobs of Negativism tell you what to do! You’re in the drivers seat!
Oh, good...Sudanese Arab!
Their candidate will get elected at that time, that's the way things happen in Illinois.
From the Illinois insider political newsletter The CapitolFax Blog
" * 12:11 pm - A quick check of campaign finance records shows Burris’ consulting company has contributed about $11K to Blagojevich’s campaign fund. The consulting company has benefitted from a bunch of state contracts since then, many of which doing PR work on behalf of IDOT minority contracting efforts.
Blagojevich privately credits Burris with playing a major role in the governor’s 2002 Democratic primary win. Burris took the African-American vote away from Paul Vallas, who was always quite popular in the black community. Blagojevich finished behind Burris and Vallas in Chicago (he barely won his own congressional district), so Burris’ spoiler role was crucial to Blagojevich’s win."
My guess is that someone (maybe from the Obama administration) suggested this fix, to make the issue go away. The man was probably not on anyone’s short list of candidates, but would make all happy.
If he is accepted as the nominee, it will mean that the Illinois legislature is accepting that Blago is still the governor, and that they should just let the incident go. The only alternative is to deny the man the nomination and hold the special election as planned. It’s a no win situation for the state of Illinois.
Burris is the first black to hold statewide office in Illinois (elected Comptroller in 1978), the last Illinois Attorney General people actually LIKED, a life member of the NAACP, and a former exec director of Operation PUSH, considered squeaky clean (clean and articulate) and a "respected elder statesman" of the party that is well liked in Illinois, he's 71 and retired, BUT unlike Jesse White, he's got Oberweis syndrome and lost his last FOUR elections in a row (losing the Dim primary for Governor in 2002, 1998, and 1994, and the Dim primary for Mayor of Chicago in 1995, as well as a Dim primary for U.S. Senator in 1984), but all the RATs feel sorry for the guy and often speculate how things would have been better if he won, sort of like poor Peter O'Toole never getting that coveted Oscar he always deserved. He'd be a seat warmer and it be the capstone of a long "distinguished" career. The Dims know that the ONLY way Burris will ever be a U.S. Senator is by appointment because his chances at running his own right are long past.
So now Reid and the RATs either have to make good on the letter that "all 50" of them SIGNED in writing -- pledging to oppose ANY person Blago picked -- and reject a high qualified, beloved black "trailblazer" elder statesman of the party (which would especially enrage their boss Je$$e), or they flip-flop and break their OWN written pledge -- invoking constant ridicule from the Republicans who circulate copies of the letter to voters in 2010 and endlessly "remind" voters that every RAT Senator capitulated and confirmed a "tainted" Senator appointed by a indicted Governor who accepted bribes to name the selection. It won't make any difference to voters in the other 49 states, who have no idea who Roland Burris is.
It doesn't make any difference to Burris either -- he wouldn't have run in his own right in 2010 anyway. (though he's probably aware accepting an appointment under these circumstances will destroy his reputation, my guess is he's so desperate to hold major office one last time in his career that he'd probably accept)
And I bet Mike Madigan is REALLY kicking himself now for refusing to name a special election and calling Blago's bluff that there's NO WAY he'd name a Senator in the current political environment. Uh oh, looks like Blago's got some brass balls, eh Mike?
This has to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen on TV in a long, long time. What a circus!
Wow!
Blago’s are so big he must need a wheelbarrow!
Crazy Chi Town strikes again. If Burris doesn’t back down, this will have to go to the Supreme Court. An interesting question too. But no matter who Illinois names, it will be a lib, so the country might just as well let them play as many games as they want.
At age 71, the non-radical Burris ain't gonna be no great ball of fire in the U.S. Senate in support of Obama's radical agenda. Blogo will have Burris's ear, either from Chicago or the State pen in Joliet, but he will have it.
Oh, I just bet the Jackson camp and the Obomunist camp are chomping on raw meat tonight trying to figure out what to do......and coming up with nothing.
What a great way to start the New Year, whoo, hoo!
Leni
Burris has the same manner of speaking as Ø.
Well, it worked for Ø.