rod blagojevich

There’s only one guy in the country who thinks that, in the wake of the Blagojevich scandal, it’s still business as usual in Springfield, Ill., and that’s Gov. Rod Blagojevich himself.
According to reports, the embattled governor, who was arrested earlier in the month for allegedly trying to sell the Senate seat recently vacated by President-elect [...]

In his first public statement on the corruption charges levied against him, Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) confidently and energetically denied that he had done anything wrong.
“I’m here to tell you right off the bat that I’m not guilty of any wrongdoing,” he opened. “I will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take [...]

Here’s an important follow-up to the earlier post about claims that emissaries to Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) offered cash to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in return for a Senate seat: Investigators have no evidence, outside of Blagojevich’s words, that the episode occurred. From MSNBC:

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., a short-list candidate to fill the Illinois Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, is “Senate Candidate No. 5″ in the complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich, ABC News is reporting, citing unnamed federal law enforcers. From ABC:

Just a quick observation on the Blagojevich arrest: Did anyone else find it ironic that this episode comes just three days after Democratic Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) lost his reelection bid?
You know Jefferson. He’s the guy discovered to have $90,000 in cash stored in his freezer — wrapped in aluminum foil no less. In June [...]