Being Blagojevich
2009-09-08 17:08:00 Run, Blago, run! In an alley, between Lake & Randolph and State & Wabash. (Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune)With the official release Tuesday of his tell-all book, "The Governor," Rod Blagojevich unleashes his biggest media blitzkrieg since January, when he made the talk show rounds proclaiming his innocence just before he was kicked out of office.Call him a pop icon, a buffoon, a crook or an innocent guy trying to clear his name. The headlines Rod Blagojevich has made since he was kicked out of office in January seem to have covered it all. Here's a look back at the mark Blagojevich has left on pop culture.Art The now-iconic stencil image of Blagojevich jogging in his black track suit inspired the...
A/C: Laporte, Alternative Galleries and Playing Tag with Blagojevich
2009-08-06 08:14:00 Bitner and Kotlowitz's immensely popular LaPorte, Indiana is getting a new treatment with a documentary film that's in the works. Zaha Hadid's Burnham Pavilion is finally open, and it's a looker -- at least for now. "At the Movies" is getting yet another overhaul, this time with the Trib's Michael Phillips pairing up with A.O. Scott of the NY Times battling it out. Hopefully this arrangement will stick.The Cermak Road Creative Industries District is finally expanding, and they want you check out the digs next weekend, so mark your calendar now.Wendy McClure's childhood infatuation with Little House on the Prairie has stoked some very interesting conversation. U of C copy editor Carol Fisher Saller is still getting some pretty darned positive reviews for The Subversive Copy Editor. One recent review goes as far...
Racketeering Lawsuit Filed Against Rod Blagojevich by Three Casino Companie
2009-06-15 01:07:00 Three casino companies have filed a $267 million racketeering lawsuit against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and a prominent racetrack owner over a controversial law that requires casinos to...
Blagojevich Case Goes to Family Secrets Mob Trial Judge
2009-04-06 22:40:00 Fresh off handling one of Chicago's biggest mob cases in decades, U.S. District Judge James Zagel will preside over the corruption case against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. And it's no...
FORMER ILLINOIS GOVERNOR ROD BLAGOJEVICH, HIS BROTHER, TWO FORMER TOP AIDES
2009-04-04 15:27:00 Since 2002, even before he was first elected governor that November, and continuing until he was arrested on Dec. 9, 2008, former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and a circle of his closest aides...
Rod ?Blago? Blagojevich, Cronies And Family Member Indicted On Nineteen Fel
2009-04-03 05:27:00 Blago: “I am innocent. I now will fight in the courts to clear my name. …” Well, the former governor of Illinois, a.k.a., ’round these parts, “The Cabbage Patch Kid“, has a lot of new material to discuss on his talk radio fill-in gig on Chicago’s WLS-AM 890... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Rod Blagojevich to Join Pro Wrestling's Main Event Mafia?
2009-02-01 23:54:00 TNA Wrestling is offering the newly created position of Chairman for its Main Event Mafia faction - and the opportunity to openly sell chairs, steel chairs - to ousted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. TNA officials confirmed that Blagojevich, who was impeached by the Illinois Senate on January 29, is being offered the “Chairman” job within its Main Event Mafia faction, an elite unit which
Blagojevich Removed from Office in Unanimous Impeachment
2009-01-30 16:40:00 In Illinois, Governor Rod Blagojevich has been removed from office in a unanimous impeachment vote. On Thursday, the State Senate voted 59-to-0 to impeach Blagojevich for abuse of power. Blagojevich was indicted last year on bribery and wire fraud charges. The allegations included trying to sell President Obama?s vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. ...
By: Today's Talk
Ill. senate votes 59-0 to remove Gov. Blagojevich
2009-01-30 00:33:00 Ill. senate votes 59-0 to remove Gov. Blagojevich SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted at his impeachment trial and thrown out of office Thursday, ending a nearly two-month crisis that erupted with his arrest on charges he tried to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat. Blagojevich becomes the first U.S. governor in ...
By: TexasFred's
Blagojevich Ousted by 59-0 Senate Vote
2009-01-30 00:01:00 The Illinois state senate has found Rod Blagojevich guilty in their impeachment trial of the corrupt governor by a vote of 59-0. The former governor had refused to take part in the trial, but he surprised everyone by asking to make a closing statement in which he insisted that he ...
Rod Blagojevich FBI Audio Tape MP3 PODCAST
2009-01-28 14:28:00 Rod Blagojevich, Emil Jones and Jeffrey Schoenberg at Illinois Executive Mansion.Rod Blagojevich FBI Audio Tape Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday afternoon heard Gov. Rod Blagojevich's voice on secretly recorded FBI audiotapes. Recorded December 4, 2008 9:09 am.Copyright Status and Citation: Information generated by the Department of Justice is in the public domain and may be reproduced, published or otherwise used without the Department?s permission.Citation to the Department of Justice as the source of the information is appreciated, as appropriate.Image License information: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
In Defense of Governor Rod Blagojevich
2009-01-27 04:21:00 One of the founding principles of American jurisprudence, the precept all defendants are entitled to competent representation. The impeachment trial which began today, is little more than a choreographed political persecution. The Governor was well advised to skip it, and head to the big apple to make the rounds of the talk shows, in hopes ...
Blagojevich: "I Thought About Mandela, Dr. King, And Gandhi"
2009-01-26 15:02:00 You may have read about Blagojevich comparing himself to the biggest names in Civil and Human Rights, but here’s your chance to actually watch him do it: Words fail me. Well, no they don’t. It’s absolutely fucking astounding to see a white man say something like that. Fucking astounding. Related Posts: Act like a Christian? No, Thanks. The Cleanup ...Copyright © 2008 Bligbi. This feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement.
By: Bligbi
Blagojevich?s Mea Culpa
2009-01-13 19:43:00 -By Dan Scott The recent vote of 114 to 1 to impeach Governor Blagojevich was a seeming triumph of bipartisan political will or was it? Governor Blagojevich?s response was by all accounts a non sequitur citing Tennyson, claiming he was doing good with implementing Health Care and quoting the Bible or was it? ...
By: Publius Forum
MUTINY IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: Governor Rod Blagojevich Wrongfully Impeached
2009-01-10 04:54:00 Oh, Sure — It’s “A-Okay” For 535 Senators And Congresscritters And Fourty-Nine Other State Governors To Play The “Pay-To-Play” Game — That Is, UNLESS You Happen To Be The Governor Of Illinois… Hold up — I need to amend that sub-headline and... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Blagojevich Impeached
2009-01-09 18:09:00 From the too little, too late department, the Associated Press  is reporting: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Driven by anger and politics, the Illinois House has voted to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The unprecedented action sets the stage for a Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out of office for corruption and abuse of power. Who knows what jokers in the Illinois Senate will do.  Addendum(Bit): Too little, too late and in the wrong direction, too, as James Joyner reminds us: The committee on Thursday unanimously recommended impeachment based on the criminal charges but other allegations as well — that Blagojevich expanded a health care program without proper authority, that he circumvented hiring laws to give jobs to political allies, that he spent millions of dollars on foreign flu vaccine that he knew wasn’t needed and couldn’t be brought into the country. This is the right outcome but the wrong process. While impeachment is not a criminal trial and the Illinois House c...
By: BitsBlog
BLAGOJEVICH AND BURRIS: WHAT ARE WE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN?
2009-01-02 09:32:00 This past week I tuned into the press conference given by Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois when he named Roland Burris to be his choice to fill President-elect Barack Obama's recently vacated U.S. Senate seat. The scene played out like a comic opera. Blagojevich looked shifty and like the canary who ate the catbird. Yep, that odd. Even though it seems like everybody except the Pope has asked Blago to re-sign for trying to sell that very same senate seat in question, the Illinois Governor is within his right to appoint a successor to Obama before next Tuesday when the other U.S. Senators are seated--representative Bobby Rush's feeble race politics comments aside.I have one word: Unbelievable.I must admit, I miss watching the drama that is Chicago and Illinois politics. This is proving to be a tremendous boon for bystanders, Republicans, and people who love politics as theater. It shows how broken our political system is. The long and short of it is: Roland Burris should ...
Obama Aides Will Not be Subpoenad in Blagojevich Scandal
2008-12-28 16:31:00 The Illinois House committee investigating a possible impeachment of Gov. Rod Blagojevich won’t subpoena two incoming White House advisers, despite a request from the governor’s attorney. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in a letter on Friday asked the special investigative committee specifically to not subpoena President-elect Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, ...
Obama transition officials and. Rod Blagojevich
2008-12-24 02:58:00 Gregory Bestor CraigTO: The President-Elect FROM: Greg Craig DATE: December 23, 2008 SUBJECT: Transition Staff Contacts with the Governor?s OfficeAt your direction, I arranged for transition staff to provide accounts of any contacts that you or they may have had with Governor Blagojevich or his office in which the subject of your successor came up.The accounts support your statement on December 11, 2008 that you ?have never spoken to the Governor on this subject [or] about these issues,? and that you ?had no contact with the Governor?s office.? In addition, the accounts contain no indication of inappropriate discussions with the Governor or anyone from his office about a ?deal? or a quid pro quo arrangement in which he would receive a personal benefit in return for any specific appointment to fill the vacancy.One member of the transition staff, Rahm Emanuel, did have contacts of the type covered by your request. I discuss the nature of those contacts in the attached report. David Ax...
Obama Blagojevich Report: Team Claims Exoneration
2008-12-24 02:25:00 More at Huff Post: “Barack Obama's chief counsel declared on Tuesday afternoon that only one member of the President-elect's staff -- incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel -- had any communications with embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his staff since Obama's election.Emanuel's interactions, moreover, were not in any way improper, Obama's aides stressed, and the transition team was fully compliant both with the law and the U.S. Attorney's investigation into Blagojevich's alleged pay-for-play scheme."No one in the Obama circle was aware of what was going on in the governor's office until he was arrested," said Greg Craig, Obama's counsel. "They found out what the Governor was doing the same time the American public found out about it."”
Blagojevich SHOULD quit on Monday
2008-12-14 21:10:00 The classically corrupt governor of Illinois will hopefully do us all a favor and say goodbye to his office tomorrow: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scandal-plagued Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich could announce on Monday that he will leave office, the state's top legal officer said on Sunday. Blagojevich was arrested last week on charges of swapping political favors for cash, including an attempt to
By: Tel-Chai Nation
Governor Blagojevich Scandal SNL Video
2008-12-14 17:00:00 Were you wondering how Saturday Night Live was going to cover the Governor Blagojevich scandal? Well, here it is in all it’s inappropriate, hilarious glory!
Blagojevich: Mental illness or just ?politics as usual??
2008-12-12 06:30:00 Yes, I’m not a psychologist, but as a Family Practitioner in rural areas, I’ve diagnosed and treated my share of mental illnesses in my patients. So I am appalled at the press swallowing the spin that Governor Blagojevich’s desire for money/bribes is a “mental illness”. CBS2Chicago: Gov. Rod Blagojevich knew for months he was under investigation, so ...
AP?s Emotive Language For Gov. Rod Blagojevich
2008-12-10 15:04:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Evidence in abundance of AP’s new “style” of news coverage. Not long ago, the Associated Press informed its writers that they should be more emotive in their writing. Instead of an old newsy just-the-facts style of reporting, then AP was looking to goose it up and add more opinion and emotion to its ...
By: Publius Forum
ILLINOIS GOV. ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH AND HIS CHIEF OF STAFF JOHN HARRIS ARRESTE
2008-12-10 00:46:00 Official congressional portrait of former congressman and current Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich.Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Original Document in PDF FormatFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY DECEMBER 9, 2008, www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln Federal Building 219 South Dearborn Street, 5th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60604 (312) 353-5300 PRESS CONTACT: Randall Samborn 312-353-5318FBI Press Conference on Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) Corruption Charges (December 9, 2008) FULL STREAMING VIDEOILLINOIS GOV. ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH AND HIS CHIEF OF STAFF JOHN HARRIS ARRESTED ON FEDERAL CORRUPTION CHARGESBlagojevich and aide allegedly conspired to sell U.S. Senate appointment, engaged in ?pay-to-play? schemes and threatened to withhold state assistance to Tribune Company for Wrigley Field to induce purge of newspaper editorial writers CHICAGO ? Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff, John Harris, were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges alleging that they and o...
Rod Blagojevich Indited By the Feds
2008-12-09 17:36:00 Move over “Cold Cash” Jefferson, yet another democrat is in legal trouble, Pete Williams, NBC News et al: WASHINGTON - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama’s election as president Note this scandal is linked to the Office of the President Elect.  These are the emoluments Blagojevich suggested: The Department of Justice alleges that in exchange for the Senate appointment, Blagojevich discussed obtaining: a substantial salary for himself at either a non-profit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions; placing his wife on paid corporate boards where he speculated she might garner as much as $150,000 a year; promises of campaign funds — including cash up front; a cabinet post or ambassadorship for himself Note, sounds like business as usual in Illinois.  The Senate needs to make it ...
By: BitsBlog
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Arrested By The FBI
2008-12-09 17:31:00 The controversial democratic governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested this morning at their homes by the FBI on federal corruption charges. Investigators are looking into allegations of corruption, involving Blagojevich and the Health Facilities Planning Board, as well as the Teachers Retirement System. The investigation has been going ...
More questions for Blagojevich
2008-04-15 15:40:00 The open government of Chicago is no more. Governr Blagojevich has refused to open up the books on pardons which was par forthe course. He hasshut dowthe FOIA into pardons after a couple of pardons that garneredsome criticism. Gov refuses...
By: Stix Blog
Cubs fan Blagojevich booed loudly at U.S. Cellular (AP)
2008-04-12 02:47:00 Gov. Rod Blagojevich heard boos Friday night when the Chicago White Sox unveiled a championship monument commemorating their 2005 World Series title, and it figured — he’s a big Cubs fan. Blagojevich was booed loudly when he first entered the plaza where the ceremony took place before the game against Detroit, heard the boos again ...
By: MLB News Blog
Blagojevich says Cubs should stay at Wrigley Field forever (AP)
2008-03-28 01:19:00 Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Thursday he’ll do all he can to keep the team playing at Wrigley Field as billionaire owner Sam Zell looks to sell both the team and the ballpark. Zell has been interested in selling the 94-year-old landmark to the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, a state-city agency. Read the full story.
By: MLB News Blog
Blagojevich fundraiser got loan from billionaire tied to Rezko
2008-02-10 07:31:00 Billionaires Blog: By Mike Robinson Photo via dailyilliniGov. Rod Blagojevich's chief fundraiser had arranged to get a loan from the same Iraqi billionaire whose $3.5 million payment got another member of the governor's inner circle thrown in jail.Read
More troubles for Blagojevich
2007-12-17 17:06:00 Well, there is more trouble for Blagojevich. Now the IRS is after him for all the flights he has taken from Chicago to Springfield. I still want to know when we voted on moving the capital to Chicago??? Well, the...
By: Stix Blog
Exposing Blagojevich: Governor's Style An Obstacle
2007-12-07 02:42:00 Welcome to the Democratic Republic of Chicago. Blogojevich has moved the state carpital to Chicago and has been missing in action for most of the year on important issues. IT is laughable to think that he wants to run again...
By: Stix Blog
Blagojevich, Governor of the State of Illinois passes Proclamation
2007-07-09 13:30:00 WHEREAS, according to the Illinois Department on Aging, between four and five percent of persons in the United States, aged sixty and older are subject to some form of mistreatment or abuse, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, as well as financial exploitation and neglect of basic care needs; andWHEREAS, Illinois has approximately two million citizens over the age of sixty, meaning that as many as 90,000 Illinois seniors could currently be suffering from some form of abuse; andWHEREAS, it is the mission of the Illinois Department on Aging and its network of service providers to increase public awareness of this plight against our most vulnerable elderly; and to promote increased reporting of elder abuse; andWHEREAS, it is essential that the citizens of Illinois recognize the signs of abuse, neglect and exploitation and report suspicions of abuse; andWHEREAS, it is imperative that each community in Illinois refuses to tolerate this offense against our older citizens by c...
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