CNN Reports Burris Likely to Be Sworn In This Week
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Dandy.
On the good side, he’s a blog material creating machine
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Daily Dolt: Illinois Review
Eaton is upset she didn’t get a call back on Friday from her State Rep:
Why do I call Davis “bigoted”? East of I-57 his district is heavily black. West of I-57, it is not. Need I say more? Those of us in Davis’ district west of I-57 are ignored. He doesn’t care what we think, because he gets all the support he needs east of I-57. We are Davis’ dis-enfranchised voters, and he demonstrated Friday he could care less.
The story of how this district came to be is partially my fault, or so an Illinois lawmaker/friend told me.
In 2002, when the Democrats were re-drawing senate and state rep districts, my then-State Rep, now-Senator Maggie Crotty (D-Oak Forest) told a Republican lawmaker that she drew an “X” on my house and told the map drawers, “I don’t want that woman in my district…”
And lo, and behold, though I live in a subdivision with those from another district, my neighbors aren’t too happy, as all of us –because of Senator Crotty’s map demands — were drawn into a House and Senate district centered far east of us, in the heavily black communities of southern Chicago, Harvey and Markham, making our Republican-leaning precinct irrelevant to district voting.
Now, not only is Will Davis our state rep, Senator James Meeks is our state Senator. (And Bobby Rush is our Congressman.)
I don’t think disenfranchised means what she thinks it means. There’s so much more to take in, but I’ll let the whole experience wash over you.
And the Lobbyist 1 Story Starts to Make it Around
SPRINGFIELD — A potentially troublesome new detail emerged about Roland Burris’ controversial U.S. Senate appointment Thursday after a state House panel voted unanimously to recommend Gov. Blagojevich be impeached.
For the first time, Burris indicated that he asked Blagojevich’s former chief of staff and college classmate, Lon Monk, to relay his interest in the Senate seat to the governor last July or September.
“If you’re close to the governor, you know, let him know I’m certainly interested in the seat,” Burris said he told Monk.
That testimony appears to differ from an affidavit Burris submitted to the impeachment panel this week in which he stated he spoke to no “representatives” of the governor about the Senate post prior to Dec. 26.
Federal prosecutors, who identified Monk as “Lobbyist 1” in their criminal complaint against Blagojevich, indicated they tapped Monk’s phone in November as Blagojevich moved to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat.
Rod vs The House
Predictable and pitiful. I’m pretty sure I could have guessed the entire thing other than the Tennyson quote.
What a Class Act
Using disabled people and children for cover.
Done.
1 Vote against, not sure who it was yet
Classic
Where, you might ask, is Gov. Rod Blagojevich as the Illinois House debates his impeachment?
A Tribune photographer took pictures of Blagojevich going jogging in his Ravenswood Manor neighborhood at about 10 a.m.
Hamos Not Bad
But I think this is the same thing she said yesterday.
Proudest Moment
Jack Franks says…
Really?
And feel free to do a best cliche contest in the comments.
So far, Durkin did himself well. Fritchey and Miller were as expected. The rest would have been better to sit down and shut up.
Oh, and who has the flattest As is the second contest. Right now Gordon wins hands down.