Speaking of such, what is up with this Blagojevich guy? Who voted for this guy in Chicago last election?
You know, I seem to recall that Shivas guy telling us a few months ago something to the effect of 'you guys have no effin' clue how corrupt Chicago politics are and how deep and wide the swamp is.'
...and it's STILL just getting started if you ask me. If you read the criminal complaint, they got wiretaps right around when Rezko started proffering information (ie, talking to the Feds) ini late October. Seems to me that's the info the Feds used to convince the judge of probable cause to get the wiretaps. What we don't know is who else got tapped. And we don't know who else has been tapped since before October.
BTW, there's a really interesting exclusive on the front page of the Chicago Tribune about a Jesse Jackson fundraiser for Blago for -- lo and behold! -- $1MM last Saturday...
NEWS FLASH!!!
BLAGOJEVICH RESIGNS; SCHMIDT APPOINTED GOVERNOR
This just in from WGN......
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, implicated in a pay-to-play scandal earlier this week, has resigned. In a sudden and unexpected compromise reached by the Illinois Legislature, Winnetka lawyer/barefoot golfer Dave Schmidt had been appointed governor.
The appointment of the otherwise unknown Schmidt as governor was explained in a hastily called press conference by Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Schmidt's only known governmental expertise came in comments made earlier this year on an obscure website called GolfClubAtlas, in which Schmidt advocated the abolishment of all local, county and state government offices and functions.
"Since he doesn't believe in much government, we figured he wouldn't be able to sell much of it off," Madigan explained, in hoping Illinois could end its recent practice of governors ending up in jail or arrested at their homes.
Schmidt said his first priority as governor would be putting a stop to renovation plans at the Peter Jans National Golf Course in Evanston, indicating he had information that the redevelopment of the course was tied to a complicated refinancing and campaign contribution scheme discussed in previously undisclosed federal wiretaps that implicated Blagojevich. Schmidt had joined several local golfers in opposing the changes at the Jans. The former governor's wife Patricia, involved in real estate deals on property adjoining the Jans golf course and apparently aware of the opposition efforts, can be heard on the wiretaps urging tough tactics against the golfers, saying: "Hold up that fu...Jans sh..! Fu..them!"
Schmidt spokesman John Kavanaugh said the new governor would begin quickly to resore credibility to a state and city tarnished yet again by scandal.
"It's a dark period in our history," Kavanaugh said. "Dark, dark, dark. But in our darkest hours, and even in the darkest poetry expressed by our citizens, we will see our way through to the light. We hope our good name, and good standing, will be restored, at this site and others."