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Unfortunately I believe that we are limited in what we can focus on. I think that if we proceed with the partisan sideshow of prosecuting Bush admin. officials, healthcare will get lost in the brouhaha.
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Blago Campaign 'Hit List' Targeted Burris, Other Senate Candidates
Fundraisers for Rod Blagojevich set their sights on four candidates for Barack Obama's then-vacant senate seat in the months before the ousted Illinois governor's arrest, according to an internal campaign document published Saturday by the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Dec. 3, 2008, list of about 150 potential campaign donors included Roland Burris, billionaire J.B. Pritzker, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky and U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who were all reportedly under consideration for the Senate seat. According to the list, the Friends of Blagojevich organization hoped to raise up to $2.3 million by the end of last year.
"The FBI obtained an early version of the list in October, after former Blagojevich friend and aide John Wyma began cooperating with authorities investigating the governor," the Sun-Times reported. "It was key to prosecutors' successful effort to win extraordinary court approval to wiretap the governor's home phone and to bug his campaign office."
Burris, who is working to establish a legal fund amid an ongoing investigation into his testimony on the Blagojevich scandal, maintains that there was no "pay to play" for his Senate appointment. Schakowsky told the newspaper that she was never approached for cash, Pritzker dismissed the list, and Gutierrez's office disputed a Blagojevich claim that he organized a Dec. 5 fundraiser.
Chicago Tribune publisher Sam Zell, whose editorial staffers were allegedly subject to threats by Blagojevich over critical coverage, was also reportedly an intended target for campaign cash.
Read the full Sun-Times story here.
By Amanda Zamora |
March 30, 2009; 1:15 PM ET
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I think Blago knew what he was doing, and he got caught. If the president were not doing such a horrible, damaging job, then the liberals with their kneeling press would not have needed to sacrifice one of their own. Is Blago a crook? Oh yeah, no denying that. Are some of these other stories just wagging the dog to keep the Amerikan Sheeple feeding at the trough of disinformation? Yup!
The people below a certain socia economic level will always support the teat of welfare givers.
Those of us in the middle, who pay taxes, and have retirement plans, we are the ones speaking out, we are the ones watching this socialist muslim destroy the greatest nation on the planet for his own personal satisfaction. He only cares about his glory, his celebrity and his family. He could care less about any of you, or me.
He envisions himself the Hugh Hefner of the political world. Clinking his drink, deftly dropping a cig ash to the ground, and winking at the ladies. He is an obamination.