His Former Excellency Governor Rod Blagojevich will go back on trial for trying to sell now President Barack Obama’s Senate seat the first week of January 2011. He will be on trial alone and with a reduced list of charges, in the hopes that the jury will be able to come to a decision this [...]
The prosecutors have decided not to rety Robert Blagojevich, the brother of His Former Excellency Governor Rod Blagojevich (did you know that is the governor’s official title? Neither did I until I read a recent Illinois Senate resolution.) While he’s probably guilty of some things, like trusting his brother, he was a distraction that muddled [...]
The State of Illinois and it’s out of control spending is now costing us an additional $550 million in interest, due to us being such a sucky financial risk. Where do we go from here? How can we ever recover? We borrowed all of the money out of the retirement funds and then had to [...]
Governor Rod Blagojevich appeared upon the Daily Show last night for an interview with Jon Stewart and it was pretty good. While Rod did not promise to testify if retried, he said he would sure have the chance. Notable quotes: “Before I could catch my breath, everybody around the world thought I was a scumbag. [...]
According to John Dean “fundamentally failed to make their case.” I learned a new word today also, reading his analysis — inchoate meaning partial, or incomplete. In this case, the fact that Rod didn’t complete his selling of the Senate seat, or actually receive the funds he allegedly tried to extort. He also says that [...]
Today is the day that they auction off all of Rod’s stuff. The Friends of Rod group hasn’t paid the fees on seven storage units full of campaign papers, personal possessions, and a bunch of Elvis memoribilia. The Arlington Heights storage company has decided to auction it off and donate the surplus to the Children’s [...]
This is Rod’s Brother; Robert. He seems like an OK guy, besides the fact that he’s in real estate and politics, so I really wouldn’t trust a word he says. But besides that, a stand up sort of guy( I mean, it’s not like he’s a Jacobs.) It seems he just got caught up in [...]
An oversight on the Illinois State Fair website caused a picture depicting Rod Blagojevich as the current Governor to be run. Or was it a secret supporter? Error puts Blagojevich’s picture on Illinois State Fair website day after former governor found guilty of lying to federal agents | abc7chicago.com. Tweet This Post
Governor Rod Blagojevich was convicted of only one of the 24 charges against him, Lying to a Federal agent. And who among us hasn’t done that from time to time? The jury was hung on all other counts, and no decision has been made as to whether the charges will be refiled and another trial [...]
***Breaking News from the Onion*** The State of Illinois has admitted that it has appeared in several adult films in order to make ends meet until the current budgetary crisis is over. Considering how screwed we are already, we might as well start getting paid for it. Tweet This Post
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