Welcome to Illinois!
This guy:
Is the Governor of the state I live in. He got arrested (by the Feds!) today.
A little background. In the last half century, we've only had one Governor that didn't go to jail. Some of them didn't go to jail until they were out of office, and one of those was nice enough to wait until his term ended to do anything illegal, and go to jail. So the bar was pretty low to start with, finishing a term without getting convicted is pretty much a success here.
Rod Blagojevich, as Governor of Illinois is (was) the guy who gets to appoint someone to (President Elect) Barrack Obama's empty Senate seat. It would seem his selection process had something to do with the highest bidder. Nice.
I don't really have much to add, which I suppose is all the comment I really need to make. :-)
Is the Governor of the state I live in. He got arrested (by the Feds!) today.
A little background. In the last half century, we've only had one Governor that didn't go to jail. Some of them didn't go to jail until they were out of office, and one of those was nice enough to wait until his term ended to do anything illegal, and go to jail. So the bar was pretty low to start with, finishing a term without getting convicted is pretty much a success here.
Rod Blagojevich, as Governor of Illinois is (was) the guy who gets to appoint someone to (President Elect) Barrack Obama's empty Senate seat. It would seem his selection process had something to do with the highest bidder. Nice.
I don't really have much to add, which I suppose is all the comment I really need to make. :-)
posted by pitfinder at 11:12 AM
7 Comments:
What will happen to him?
He's already out on bail. If we're lucky, he'll spend some time in Federal prison. If we're not, he might get away with it and continue to make a mess. It sounds like the state government will move to remove him from office pretty soon.
wow.... thats an AWEFUL track record for governers!
is that unusual???
Unusual? Not for Illinois, unfortunately. We are the adopted home of Al Capone after all.
:-)
It's unusual for most of the 50 states, just not here. The unofficial motto in Chicago used to be "Vote early, vote often."
:-)
Hrm. I travel in IL a bunch each year. How soon do you think they'll take down those HUGE signs over the open-road tollways that say, "ROD J. BLAGOJEVICH, GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS"?
Soon, hopefully. But he has to stop being Governor first, which means he has to resign or be removed after being impeached. Knowing my State, it could drag on for a while.
frackloo
-somehow this seems like an appropriate captcha. :-)
Wow, that's actually a pretty amazing track record!
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