Someone needs to do a screen grab. The article from Nov 5th has been altered.
Just DAMN!
More full text screen caps needed!
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=255503&src=109
Blagojevich defends taking state plane to meet with Obama
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) - Thursday, December 4, 2008
Author: By John Patterson Sr. State Government Editor jpatterson@dailyherald.com
SPRINGFIELD — Just days after shuttering several state parks and historic sites and asking for understanding from Illinoisans amid bleak economic times, Gov. Rod Blagojevich took his taxpayer-provided aircraft to Philadelphia to tell fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama how bad things are in the state they both live in.
Blagojevich spokesman Lucio Guerrero defended the trip and use of the state plane, noting that if the governor hadn’t gone, he’d surely have faced media criticism for his absence.
“This was a historic meeting that was attended by virtually every governor in the United States, and our being there could help bring billions of dollars to Illinois,” Guerrero said Wednesday in an e-mail responding to Daily Herald questions.
Obama met Tuesday with members of the National Governors Association to discuss how the federal government can bail out states struggling to balance budgets .
“And, had we not gone out, I am sure you would question us on why we failed to go out and meet with the other governors and the president-elect,” Guerrero added.
Blagojevich , and other governors, flew into Philadelphia to tell tales of economic woe on the same day executives from the Big Three automakers drove to Washington, D.C., to plead for economic assistance. The executives faced harsh criticism for taking personal jets to a previous Capitol Hill hearing.
Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate and before that served in the Illinois Senate. He and Blagojevich both reside in Chicago with about 15 miles separating their households.
But Guerrero said the governor’s two-day Philadelphia trip was an important opportunity to discuss urgent budget issues with Obama and the other governors.
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I guess the journalist “misspoke”.
What I find interesting is that people think that Blago’s statement exonerates Odumbo. Pay attention to what Blago says; he stated that, I paraphrase, “all he is going to give me in return is appreciation”. Blago was expecting repayment for *something* otherwise there would not be an expectation of repayment. Blago did something for The One and The One snubbed him.
Wow.
This issue is flushing out the OG’s.
I’m posting here just to fly with eagles.
The story is told in song - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146222/posts
Focus on WHAT again? Oh yea, the urgent IL deficit has been all over the news....not!
Let's see, Obammy made another urgent meeting with his dying grandmother at the same time his birth certificate was sealed by the gov of HI. Then the grandmother died.
Obammy's little meetings are a little too transparent. My guess is Obammy is going to give Blago the riot act about what he is permitted to say. IL deficit my arse!!
COPY THAT LINK and SCREEN CAPTURE!!!!! It WILL go POOF in a matter of hours/minutes!
Screen capture this because these articles are disappearing fast.
“I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not… uh… I was not aware of what was happening,”
Not that it matters (or so it seems) but in the actual audio it sounded like he went to say “I had no contact with the governor wh(atsoever)...” like he’s constantly self editing and we all know why people do that. :-)
Are you the CAL who was Alan Keyes’ campaign manager in 2000? If so, is there any chance he would run again for this Senate seat, if there were to be an election?
Nice find.
Good catch. Better read it quick though before it too disappears down the memory hole.
Thanks CAL!