More on Lon Monk
Roland describes the situation as having run into Lon–apparently trying to drum up state business, and saying to Lon that Roland didn’t know what would be happening, but that Roland would be qualified to fill the Senate seat and Lon agreed.
While trying to drum up state business from a fricken’ lobbyist.
Let me repeat, Roland Burris, went to a lobbyist, who used to work for the Blagojevich Administration, while asking about state work Burris’ firm might be able to get and asked a lobbyist about an appointment to the US Senate if Obama won the Presidential race. We have a problem here.
And then he blathered on about how he was approached by so many people…..
January 8th, 2009 at
[...] Grilled by members of the Illinois House, Burris said he brought the idea of filling Obama’s Senate seat to Lon Monk — the former chief of staff whose cell phone was tapped by federal agents investigating Blagojevich’s pay-to-play scheme. [...]
January 9th, 2009 at
[...] Grilled by members of the Illinois House, Burris said he brought the idea of filling Obama’s Senate seat to “Lon” Monk — whose cell phone was tapped by federal agents investigating Blagojevich’s pay-to-play scheme. [...]
August 30th, 2009 at
[...] Neither, apparently, does Roland Burris, but you don’t have to turn to the New Testament to find incompetence. Full articleFeedback [...]
October 10th, 2009 at
[...] Burris was chatting about the seat with someone close to Blago, in the process of trying to drum up state business from that lobbyist specifically in context of his ties to [...]