Your Blago Update
Lots of action today around the pay-for-play scandal in the Land of Lincoln:
IL AG Lisa Madigan asked the IL Supreme Court to "temporarily" remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office to that the state's business can continue. Persuant to the Succession Act, she asked the court to appoint the lt. gov instead. Vid above.
"We think it is very clear he is incapable of serving," Madigan said of the governor during a news conference today in downtown Chicago. She said, "We want to make sure the people of Illinois have a governor who can legitimately fulfill the duties of that office."
Meanwhile, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) appeared today to temper his call for an emergency session of the General Assembly to pass legislation sanctioning a special election to fill Pres.-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat. Instead, Durbin suggested that it would be perhaps more efficient for Blagojevich to be removed from office and for Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn to be elevated to governor.
Could be several reasons for Durbin's shift in position. A special election gives the GOP an opening the party wouldn't have if an appointment is made by the Dem lt. gov. After all, voters might want to send a message to the IL Dem Party that the state's second Senate seat is not for sale. Also note that I first reported earlier this week on On Call that a special election for Obama's Senate seat could cost the state as much as $50 million, according to state Board of Elections officials. That's a staggering sum in good economic times. But with the nation on the brink of fiscal disaster it seems ever more burdensome.
Blagojevich's chief of staff, John Harris, resigned today. Harris was arrested with Blagojevich. Both were released on bond.
And finally, in as much as we're suspect about polls conducted with robocalls, we'll note that a new Rasmussen survey shows that Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. has fallen out of favor with the public since being identified as 'Senate Candidate 5' in the complaint against Blagojevich. Jackson has denied any wrongdoing or involvement in any offers to trade money for the seat, as is outlined in the document. But the survey shows that while 36 percent viewed the South Side Rep. as their choice to succeed Obama last week, only 18 percent say this week that Jackson deserves the seat. The new leader? Lisa Madigan.
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
Jackson is as dirty as my last weeks socks. his dad is a scum and liar so it all runs in the family
It is absolutely inconceivable that Obama is not extremely interested in who will succeed him in the US senate seat which he has just vacated. If the corrupt Blago, out of sheer spite (because he is not getting anything in return), appoints a Republican or even a known Democratic critic of Obama to the Senate, the President-elect will have one less senator to support his legislative plans and one more senatorial enemy to contend with. But, it has been widely reported that Obama has been receiving regular, daily briefings from various federal intelligence agencies including the FBI. Hence, it is equally inconceivable that Obama had not been fore-warned about the court-authorized wire-tapping of Blago's phone conversations by the FBI and that he was advised well in advance to keep a safe distance from the Illinois governor and keep his nose clinically and scrupulously clean in this regard so that he can claim with a straight face that he had no inkling of what Blago was conspiring to do when the story will inevitably break out (as it has done now)!
well illinois is my home state but i have to put my head in the sand again becuse the MOB!!!..has to sell the booz or is that the seat of the state and booz or is that the 20's going to the 21st cen f our time??? well anyway alcapone would of loved it ..tallk about money from the hood's and GEE were's the state getting all the wrong people in it?? well lets see can't pray in school.cant ask GOD for help...so Gee brown noiseing is the only way to get the right man to do the right job at a price of corse..wipe your nose and DON'T pic up the soap!!!
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