Illinois governor arrested

[djbridgeland]

Unconfirmed but it looks like Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich AKA Blago has been arrested by the FBI for corruption. 

[djbridgeland]

Looks like he was trying to sell Obama's senate seat, among other things. 

[doobie]

It's Illinois....you can't expect a governor to finish a full term without going to prison. 

[slim]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/illinois.govenor/index.html

According to CNN (Communist News Network) he has been taken in to Fed custody so the rumors appear to be true.

[Kat Kanning]

1 down, 49 to go. 

[slim]

1 down, 49 to go. 

Actually 2 down you probably forgot about Spitzer in NY

[Kat Kanning]

Woohoo!  It's a trend!

[ByronB]

I'm watching US Attorney Fitzgerald right now... its pretty crazy he was seriously getting bids for Obama's senate seat as well as attempting to get a editor in the Chicago Tribune fired for writing things he didn't like.

Don't kid yourselves though, Obama is involved in the very same type of politics which means you are going to get a taste of Illinois' politics over in NH when he becomes president.

[ByronB]

Woohoo!  It's a trend!

For Illinois it is a trend... pretty much every governor we get goes to jail for some type of corruption.

[KBCraig]

1 down, 49 to go. 

Actually 2 down you probably forgot about Spitzer in NY

Nah, he's already been replaced. Patterson is gunning to be Obama's successor, because, as he says, "once you go black, you never go back!"

I'm curious, though... how does a blind man know he's black?

[Pat McCotter]

I'm curious, though... how does a blind man know he's black?

It's nurture, not nature. Remember that Clinton was our first black president.

Clinton as the first black president
Toni Morrison
New Yorker, October 1998

African-American men seemed to understand it right away. Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas. And when virtually all the African-American Clinton appointees began, one by one, to disappear, when the President's body, his privacy, his unpoliced sexuality became the focus of the persecution, when he was metaphorically seized and bodysearched, who could gainsay these black men who knew whereof they spoke? The message was clear "No matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how much coin you earn for us, we will put you in your place or put you out of the place you have somehow, albeit with our permission, achieved. You will be fired from your job, sent away in disgrace, and--who knows?--maybe sentenced and jailed to boot. In short, unless you do as we say (i.e., assimilate at once), your expletives belong to us."

[coffeeseven]

Merry Christmas Illinois. Now who will fill those size 8 narrows?

[J’raxis 270145]

Heh, Illinois. One after the other.

[djbridgeland]

Woohoo!  It's a trend!

For Illinois it is a trend... pretty much every governor we get goes to jail for some type of corruption.

Yep 3 out of the last 6 have ended up in jail.  With Blago it wasn't a question of if, but when he would end up in trouble with the feds, as he was under investigation since he took office in 2003.
With all the laws he proposed and passed I would give him a grade A Authoritarian rating.  Smoking ban in ALL businesses and you have to stand 15 feet from the door to smoke. Wanted a gross recipes business tax, wanted to increase the FOID card fee to $500 (which your are required to have to legally own a firearm), doubled the tolls, and quadruped the tolls for those without an IPASS.  Then he raided the state's pension fund, among other questionable practices to help balance the budget. Also he passed "universal" health care in the form of subsided health insurance for those earning up to $80,000 a year.         

[ByronB]

I'm really loving this, now I want to see the Mayor of Chicago and Obama go down in the mess to, I know they both practice (or have practiced) dirty politics like Blagojevich but I'm afraid they might be too smooth to get caught.