I am sure that all you bloggers out there have heard about the on going scandal brewing about our Governor Blagojevich and how he has attempted to sell president-elect Obama's vacant senate seat. This latest attempt at the Governors dive into creative entrepreneurship was only one of a long line of abuses by his administration over the last several years. The FBI has been keeping close tabs on Blago's ( As we like to call him here in Illinois) administration for three years now. The feds had" bugged" his home telephone and the phones in his office and have tapes of him working his many deals. Everything from attempting sell Obama's vacant Senate seat to extorting 50,000 Dollars from the CEO of a children's hospital here in Chicago.
I never did think that Blagojevitch was the sharpest tack on the board, but I did think that he was at least honest and a nice guy. A major reason for his being successfully elected governor is that he is the son-in-law of influential Chicago Alderman Richard Mell whom he now has strained relations with. The last thing that Illinois needed right now was another scandal involving an Illinois governor. Our former Governor, George Ryan was convicted several years ago of what became know as the "license for bribes scandal" In which commercial vehicle licences were handed out in exchange for cash.
Still, to this day George Ryan has not admitted to any wrong doing and the present Governor seems to be so far taking the same position. He is repeatedly ignoring calls him to to step down. So far the Governor has been coming and going from his home on Chicago's Northside with nothing to say about any of this. How in the face of everything that the feds have on him can act as though nothing is wrong?
This to be sure is only the beginning. It is still early and all of the facts have not yet been reported. There will be other people either directly or indirectly involved. Jesse Jackson Jr. has already been implicated as he was number five on the Governor's short list of six people as possible choices for Obama's senate seat.
In all of this. nobody will ever admit to any wrongdoing. They just don't get it, do they? And they probably never will!
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Don, you said it all pretty much. I have no clue on whats next. I am however waiting in anticipation to see how many and who else had a hand in all this crap. I will even go as far as posibly understanding extortion between between crooks, but the the Childrens Hospital. That's just plain shameless.
Oh, I almost forgot. Thanks for $500.00 you gave me for being the first to post on your blog.
Gino (NapoGino) Napolitano
http://www.chicagowholesaledeals.com
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