There's some scuttlebutt that Blago's arrest may have moved this quickly because Rahm went to the Feds after Blago tried to shake the Transition Team down. Didn't Blago listen? Mess with Rahmbo and he'll send you home in a box!
Here is a remarkable passage (methinks) from the Eric Zorn column Ilsa linked to in an earlier post:
“These charges say that even as his predecessor sat in prison after a corruption conviction, even as his associates and fundraisers were going down, even as it was widely reported that he was at the center of a federal corruption probe ... even then, Blagojevich was selling out his office and otherwise abusing his power.
In a profile of Blagojevich in last February's Chicago Magazine, writer David Bernstein reported:
Privately, a few people who know the governor describe him as a "sociopath," and they insist they're not using hyperbole. State representative Joe Lyons, a fellow Democrat from Chicago, told reporters that Blagojevich was a "madman" and "insane."
That struck me at the time, as over the top. Today it strikes me as brave and prescient.
If these allegations are true, Blagojevich is not just sleazy and venal, he's also recklessly compulsive.”
i, too, heard that the reason the feds moved forward before they really wanted to (there are many others who are expected to be charged. possibly including his wife) was because of the senate seat debacle. not sure if rahm had something to do with it or fitzgerald just didn't want that process to be tainted.
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Regardless how he got his, he earned it.
Here is a remarkable passage (methinks) from the Eric Zorn column Ilsa linked to in an earlier post:
“These charges say that even as his predecessor sat in prison after a corruption conviction, even as his associates and fundraisers were going down, even as it was widely reported that he was at the center of a federal corruption probe ... even then, Blagojevich was selling out his office and otherwise abusing his power.
In a profile of Blagojevich in last February's Chicago Magazine, writer David Bernstein reported:
Privately, a few people who know the governor describe him as a "sociopath," and they insist they're not using hyperbole. State representative Joe Lyons, a fellow Democrat from Chicago, told reporters that Blagojevich was a "madman" and "insane."
That struck me at the time, as over the top. Today it strikes me as brave and prescient.
If these allegations are true, Blagojevich is not just sleazy and venal, he's also recklessly compulsive.”
sociopath sounds about right.
i, too, heard that the reason the feds moved forward before they really wanted to (there are many others who are expected to be charged. possibly including his wife) was because of the senate seat debacle. not sure if rahm had something to do with it or fitzgerald just didn't want that process to be tainted.
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