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One Weeks Worth of Work

ArchPundit December 31, 2008 No Comments

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 was downgraded.  By having to wait the state has to pay about $20 million more in interest.  Below are the typical version and the modified version:

Typical

Modified for Rod’s arrest:

One week’s worth of work.  Amazing.

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joie de fuck you

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Pretty much sums up the humorous part of all of this:

Good for You, Asshole!

Daily Dolt: Bobby Rush

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What a jackass:

“I think what needs … to happen now is that all these folks who are opposed to Gov. Blagojevich, they need to take a chill pill,” Rush said. “We’re still a nation of laws and I believe that Roland Burris and Gov. Blagojevich, they’re on solid constitutional grounds in terms of … him being selected. I think the U.S. Senate will have to accept him.”

Rush underscored the role of racial politics during Blagojevich’s controversial appointment yesterday of Burris, the state’s first African-American elected official and a former state attorney general, to the seat left vacant by Obama, who was the U.S. Senate’s lone black member.

“I would ask you to not hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer,” Rush said Tuesday in promising to lobby congressional leaders, including U.S. Senate Democratic leaders who have vowed not to seat Burris or anyone appointed by the embattled two-term Democratic governor.

Despite Rush’s statements, Obama, the first African-American to be elected president, said he sides with U.S. Senate Democratic leaders in wanting the appointment of Burris or anyone else chosen by Blagojevich to be rejected.

Burris, appearing this morning on WGN-TV, defended Rush’s comments and denied the South Side congressman — whom Burris invited to yesterday’s U.S. Senate announcement–was playing racial politics.

Rush, Burris said, was just relating “facts and not playing the race card and not being emotional about it.”

As for Rush, in his interview this morning, he harkened to the days of segregation and the civil rights battles in Little Rock, Ark., and in Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s in warning the U.S. Senate Democratic majority shouldn’t try to block Burris.

“You know, the recent history of our nation has shown us that sometimes there could be individuals and there could be situations where schoolchildren — where you have officials standing in the doorway of schoolchildren,” Rush said. “You know, I’m talking about all of us back in 1957 in Little Rock, Ark. I’m talking about George Wallace, Bull Connor and I’m sure that the U.S. Senate don’t want to see themselves placed in the same position.”

It was pretty impossible to cut that down–Pearson’s writing was pretty much perfect making every paragraph important to the point.

I believe this analogy leads to one concluding Rod Blagojevich is Thurgood Marshall.  Bobby should be doing stand up comedy.

White’s Press Conference

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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 guessing he will be seated.

For Those on Twitter

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Check out Curry’s updates

Gotta Hand it To HuffPo

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Thank you HuffPo

Fine Moments in Rolandville

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The time in a debate when he kept referring to 9/11 as 7-11.

Chicago Daily Herald
January 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 in Peotone, Burris referred to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as taking place on “7-11.“

In 2002, when running for Governor, Burris was asked if he supported increased funding for the developmentally disabled and he called it a “no brainer”.

John Shibley call home.

and finally:

Chicago Sun-Times
March 6, 2002 Wednesday

LEGISLATIVE CHALLENGE OF THE NIGHT: “Education, in my program . . . starts at [age] zero . . . really starting in the ninth month of pregnancy, where the mother or the other parent or someone is reading to the child in the womb as the brain is still developing. Those brains will retain those sound waves . . . “

—Roland Burris, answering a question about school quality

Law Firm Donations

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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.

Two Clarifications for the National Press

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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 given some as well–I’ll break that out in a bit.

Burris’s lobbying firm didn’t receive only $295,000 in state contracts, try $705,000 since 2003.

Burris on Maddow

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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.