Archive for December, 2008
Posted in December 31st, 2008
Sam Adam was the one to approach Davis and Burris. This is bizarre and opens up all sorts of questions about what exactly is going on in the Governor’s office. Most I’ve heard from on this see it as setting up some sort of defense for a trial later. The possibility I keep coming back […]
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Posted in December 31st, 2008
TPM reports an aide to an Illinois legislative Democrat says they won’t speed up impeachment: “No,” the source said, when we asked if the impeachment proceedings might be fast-tracked. “They set out to do something in a measured and careful manner with an eye towards not creating or setting the wrong precedent, and not trampling […]
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Posted in December 31st, 2008
Progress Illinois passes along Ta-Nehisi Coates take on Rush’s giving the race card a bad name routine. This is a sickening display–especially Bobby Rush’s invocation of God. Rush\Blago\Burris’s race argument is rather incredible. I’ve been thinking about this for awhile as a political move. It strikes as a kind of suicide bomb. Blago is going […]
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Posted in December 31st, 2008
Earlier I mentioned that the AG’s Office screwed the pooch on the bond deal by taking a week to add language to some of the documents. Both the Treasurer’s Office and Comptroller’s Office had their minor fixes ready within a day and could have moved forward and made the sale before the state’s credit rating […]
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Posted in December 31st, 2008
Pretty much sums up the humorous part of all of this: Good for You, Asshole! I completely approve of Blagojevich’s decision to go ahead and name a new senator. Sure, he’s being an asshole, but there’s a certain “joie de fuck you” quality to the announcement that you just have to admire. This is a […]
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Posted in December 31st, 2008
What a jackass: A day after making racially charged remarks warning critics of Roland Burris’s appointment to the U.S. Senate to “not hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate” disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush said today that senators “don’t want to see themselves in the same position” as George […]
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Posted in December 30th, 2008
Via Progress Illinois My sense is that Jesse cannot stop this and probably the Senate cannot given the relevant court cases in regard to Adam Clayton Powell. It looks as if Illinois has a new Senator. Now, it might take a while for him to get seated with all of the court challenges, but I’m […]
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Posted in December 30th, 2008
Check out Curry’s updates
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Posted in December 30th, 2008
Posted in December 30th, 2008
The time in a debate when he kept referring to 9/11 as 7-11. Chicago Daily HeraldJanuary 11, 2002, Friday Cook/DuPage/Fox Valley/Lake/McHenry Burris, who has lost two previous Democratic governor primaries, displayed his energetic charisma, referring to himself in the third person several times. But he also stumbled. While expressing his support for a third airport […]
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Posted in December 30th, 2008
Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan was Burris, Wright, Slaughter and Tom until 2007 when it merged. So if we look at the donations we see $1000 from GSH $5,000 from Burris, Wright, Slaughter, and Tom.
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Posted in December 30th, 2008
One, Roland Burris II is part of a law firm that has made significant contributions to Blagojevich as well, but Burris the elder is no longer with the firm–he was of counsel previously for RB II’s firm. Whether to include those contributions in Burris the elder’s total depends upon the dates. His current firm has […]
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Posted in December 30th, 2008
Burris was frightenling coherent. He still was awful, but not as bad as I expected. Video to come–no TiVo so I’m at the mercy of the internets.
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Posted in December 30th, 2008
Teh Awesome: Questions also surfaced in 2004 about Burris’s consulting firm, when it was awarded a $150,000 state contract to advise disadvantaged businesses on how to improve their operations and ultimately win state contracts. Burris said politics played no role in his firm obtaining the contract. Donate lots of money would be the obvious answer.
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Posted in December 30th, 2008
Anyone got Burris in a cowboy hat? TPM You really do have to wonder what planet Roland Burris is living on right now. In an appearance just now on MSNBC, Burris was asked about the possibility of the Senate refusing to seat him. “Well, I think you will see a major outcry from the people […]
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