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The Congressman had tried for years to extract himself from his father and his father's business and be his own man. To have him bite at Blago's bait and get caught is lousy.
He will survive in the Congress because his seat is 90% Democratic and loyal. But he will not be much of a contender for other offices after this. Perhaps he knew this, and is one of the reasons he aggressively hounded everyone for Obama's seat.
The entire charade he put on damages him. He tried to dupe us all with his campaign blitzkreig. He and his inner circle went out of their way to produce this huge ruse.
He can no longer be trusted.
Halvorson should be secretly pleased over this.
Stuff caughts up with you sooner or later.
Wonder if it will make it hard for him to recruit emissaries in the future?
It is clear to me that Blago was selling the Senate appointment to the highest bidder. But the quid pro quo issue is still unresolved. It will be interesting to see if the feds can dot the i's and cross the t's in this case. I'm still open-minded abot the guilt and innocence of the Jacksons. But it looks very bad!
More from the tease... According to the interviewer, Don Lemon, Trips said Rod has "something wrong with him," and, suggested the remarks on the tape might have been fantasy.
If anything came out of this story (if any of it is true) it's that JJJ would associate with a loser/gadfly like Coconate at all. The guy's run for state rep & ward committeeman several times and gotten trounced. How beneficial could Coconate possibly have been to him for anything.
Not to defend JJJ to the hilt, but this story was weak!
Why do politicians with no opponents need millions in a campaign fund? Why is it allowed for the pol with a huge pile of money to give some of those funds to another pol?
Why do we allow someone like Blagojevich to collect campaign contributions that are then used for legal fees to defend himself in a criminal investigation related to his official conduct?
I don't know what the answer is, but big changes are needed. We need to make it much more difficult for shakedowns to happen, and to put our relatively honest pols in the position of raising funds for our less honest pols.
No sale.
This is far from over.
He must be feeling like Michael Corleone in GFIII.
"Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in."
=Iftekhar Shareef, past president of the influential Federation of Indian Associations, said he attended the Saturday fundraiser for the governor at the invitation of Bedi and Nayak. Shareef said the congressman's brother Jonathan also attended.
"Raghu [Nayak] is always talking about how we need to appoint Jesse to the Senate," Shareef said. "They are very close. Raghu is close with all the Jacksons. He even asked me to write a letter to the governor supporting Jesse Jackson for the Senate." Shareef said he wrote the letter.=
Why would Raghu "need" Jesse Jackson Jr. as a United States Senator?
The Feds have been digging into records at Mutual Bank Corp., Amrish Mahajan's bank and a himself a huge Blagojevich fundraiser, in regards to the Rezko land deal next to Obama's home. Doesn't it appear that Rezko is singing all sorts of tunes?
These raids are all coming just weeks after we learned about Rezko singing and the civil suit filed by former Mutual Bank credit analyst Kenneth Connor for wrongful firing.
This looks huge.
Axelrod told a Harvard audience yesterday that Jarrett never wanted the Senate seat. CNN reported that a "democratic source" told them she did want the seat on November 10th.
There are a lot of loose ends that require a nip and a tuck. You have to imagine that Gibbs is dreading this at a time he wants to be focusing on the transition communications.
Nayak has donated money to the Aurora mayor and tried to hide his ownership in a property purchased in Aurora. Amrish Mahajan, of Mutual Bank and Rezko's banker, is providing funding to Nayak for that purchase.
When has Jesse Jackson Sr ever not talked to the media? Only when his adulterous affair was revealed.
Are we to believe the King of Shakedowns was unaware of what his son was doing? That his son, Jonathon, was doing this without his blessing?
JJJr does not have monolithic support from the AA community. Being appointed to the Senate might have made it easier to win in 2010. It was a strategic career move and it failed for obvious reasons.
I think we're going to hear alot more stories once RB is indicted.
By the way! Jessie never represented me. I don't know why so many people thinks that He speaks for the entire AA community.