Candidate 5 Stumps for Senate Seat From Hot Seat

WAPO ^ | 12-11-08 | Dana Milbank

[Nick Thimmesch]

Move over, Client No. 9. The capital has a new man of mystery: Senate Candidate 5.

Not since Eliot Spitzer did his business at the Mayflower Hotel has there been so much excitement over an unnamed person in a federal criminal case. Client 9 may have paid for sex, but Candidate 5 was willing to pay for a Senate seat -- or so claimed Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to the feds.

The guessing game didn't last very long yesterday before Candidate 5 more or less outed himself.

"I did not know the process had been corrupted," Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D) pleaded at a televised afternoon news conference. "I did not know that the governor and his cronies were attempting to use the process to extort money and favors in a brazen pay-to-play scheme."

[Nick Thimmesch]

Already the Obambi apologists are circling the wagons: the "spin" is that Blago is "mental", "insane", "demented" so that whatever he says from here on in will be subject to being discredited based upon his history of "mental" problems. Rachael Madcow was actually spinning her finger near her butch head as if to say: "We don't have to acknowledge anything this guy might have to say about Obambi because he's crazy."

Yeah: crazy like a fox.

[FES0844]

and so is his wife!

[LibLieSlayer]

hussein is so involved and deep inside this corruption; they will have to use Ipecac to remove him from the body politic.

LLS

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

The ironic claims of innocence are comical, given they are from the namesake and son of the so-called “reverend” Jesse Jackson, who has made a career as one the biggest shake-down artists in U.S. history.

[shadowgovernment]

“Already the Obambi apologists are circling the wagons”
>>>>>>>>>.................
will a "DEEP throat" emerge to destroy them all? Obuma is now damaged how much more could come out? Me thinks a few will end up sleeping with the fishes.

[pnh102]

This is beautiful. We can not only get rid of a corrupt Democrat governor but a corrupt Democrat congressman as well.

And yes, I know that since this is Chicago they will simply be replaced with other corrupt Democrats, but it is still fun to watch them go down.

[sirchtruth]

The ironic claims of innocence are comical, given they are from the namesake and son of the so-called “reverend” Jesse Jackson, who has made a career as one the biggest shake-down artists in U.S. history.

What crime was committed? What action took place that was criminal? Why did Fitz stop short?

[Renkluaf]

Ya got to love it. His Chicago buddies are: a terrorist, a racist pastor, a convicted felon and an idicted (to be convicted) pol. But he’s pure as the driven snow. Can’t make this stuff up!

[JRochelle]

The Governor's wife is a bitch. Really.

She hates her father and won't speak to him. Her father is a powerful politician in Chicago.

She didn't want to move down State, didn't want to leave Chicago when her husband was elected gov. So the Governor's Mansion in Springfield remains empty.
He commutes back and forth from Chicago to Springfield.

Her sister is a butch lesbian who has been moaning and groaning about gay marriage for years.

Liberals are not happy people, she is evidence of that.

[Paladin2]

"The Governor's wife is a bitch. Really"

"In an Oct. 19 article, the Tribune reported that since Rod Blagojevich began raising money in 2000 for his first run for governor, the first lady's home-based River Realty, Inc. earned more than $700,000 in commissions -- and that "more than three-quarters came from clients with connections."

"One such deal, reported on last year, involved the $650,000 sale of a condo from a businessman who later won $10 million in no-bid state contracts.

"The Tribune reported that the first lady earned a likely commission of between $26,000 and $39,000 in the sale.

"The newspaper also reported that Mrs. Blagojevich also had a long business relationship with Antonin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago developer and former Obama fundraiser who was convicted on fraud charges earlier this year. The Blagojeviches reportedly refuse to disclose how much the real estate company made off Rezko."

[Toespi]

This must be Obama’s idea of “spreading the wealth.”

[Paladin2]

"“Reading with your children is one of the best ways to spend quality time with them while helping them develop critical skills like building a good vocabulary and active listening,” said the First Lady."

Note for later schadenfreude.

[Paladin2]

It’d be too much to expect to have Patti as the 0bamas’ real estate agent.

[Paladin2]

"The spotlight on Gov. Rod Blagojevich is also shining on his wife, who already was being investigated for her real-estate dealings.

"In the complaint against him, his 43-year-old wife emerged as a woman who schemed to cash in on his job and punish those who got in her way.

Patti Blagojevich has not been charged with any wrongdoing. "But, according to the complaint, she was the voice in the background spewing a suggestion to "just fire" some newspaper editors if the Tribune Co. hoped for state assistance to sell Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs.

"She was in full support, the complaint said, of her husband's suggestion that the price of the governor naming a replacement for Obama's Senate seat include a six-figure seat on a corporate board."

Patti is apparently a real piece of work.

[Paladin2]

Patti looks like she is not guilty, though she may actually be.

[angelsonmyside]

“It’d be too much to expect to have Patti as the 0bamas’ real estate agent.”

I can not claim it to be a fact but I could have sworn I heard someone on Fox yesterday saying she was.

[shaft29]

“I did not know the process had been corrupted,” Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D) pleaded at a televised afternoon news conference.”

Translation: I didn’t know the governor’s phone was tapped.