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Reid pressured Blagojevich not to appoint Jackson Jr. to Obama’s U.S. Senate seat
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | January 2, 2009 | NATASHA KORECKI, CHRIS FUSCO AND LYNN SWEET

Posted on 01/03/2009 2:28:16 AM PST by GQuagmire

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To: NoRedTape
Can’t wait for the tapes!

Tapes at 11:00 pm

21 posted on 01/03/2009 5:44:08 AM PST by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: library user

“Harry Reid hates black people.”

Most Dems hate blacks as well, even black Dems...they just need to keep blacks ignorant enough to believe what the Dems tell them and keep waving carrots in front of the slaves to keep them on the plantation.


22 posted on 01/03/2009 5:54:55 AM PST by RouxStir (No peein' allowed in the gene pool.)
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To: autumnraine
I’d probably say “What’s in it for me?” too

In the book BOSS, Mike Royko mentioned that the unofficial slogan of the Chicago City Council was "Ubi Mea", which is Latin for "where's mine?"

23 posted on 01/03/2009 5:55:36 AM PST by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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To: malkee

Ping.

Isn’t this precious? So now we know why Reid and Durbin are so set against Burris. Like Jackson and Danny Davis, Reid and Durbin don’t think Burris can win the seat in a 2010 election.

I couldn’t figure out why Burris wouldn’t be acceptable to the Senate because he is as qualified as any other candidates mentioned and he is black. What else could they want? Now we know they want electability.

I guess it’s difficult for a Democrat to be elected unless they have the backing of the Daley machine and Jackson, Davis and Burris apparently do not. Duckworth and Madigan apparently do. The power behind all this are fascinating.

Blago is holding all the trump cards. He just played another one with this leak to the Sun-Times, which had to come from him.

On Fox News, it was just reported that Blago was stripped of his security clearance by the Homeland Security Dept.


24 posted on 01/03/2009 5:58:29 AM PST by randita
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To: GQuagmire

I hope a lot of dirty Harry’s smelly sweaty constituents forget to vote for him in 2010.


25 posted on 01/03/2009 6:01:39 AM PST by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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......Reid and Durbin are dead set against Burris....

THIS JUST IN Chicagoans interested in measuring the girth of Burris' ego can stroll through Oak Woods Cemetery on the South Side............to admire the would-be US senator's huge erect tombstone......

I guess Reid and Durbin do not want ANOTHER erect member in the Senate (smirk).

PS: Don't even ask to describe the shape of Burris' erect tombstone (snicker).

26 posted on 01/03/2009 6:07:51 AM PST by Liz (The right to be left alone is the beginning of freedom. USSC Justice William O. Douglas)
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To: GQuagmire
An unidentified source told the Chi/Trib JJJ attended an Oct 31 meeting
sponsored by Oak Brook "businessman" Raghuveer Nayak..........The source told the Chi/Trib that Nayak AND Blagojevich aide Rajinder
Bedi told attendees a $million to the Governor would ensure JJJ
got Obama's Senate seat.

" I been in Congress 13 years. My earmarks totaled $231,000 as of 6/1/07.
There's plenty more where that came from IF they make me Senator.
I also told them guys to dump all the unsold Obama DVD's and to start
pushing my poster."

"Pure as the driven snow.......no one in Chicago even comes close."

27 posted on 01/03/2009 6:11:17 AM PST by Liz (The right to be left alone is the beginning of freedom. USSC Justice William O. Douglas)
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The Most Ethical Administration in the history of the Republic (sob).

"Look, Blago, you hairy screwball. You better have a press conference and you
better act sincere....or else. My boys are gonna be locked and loaded aiming
AK47's at your back."

"Ok, Mayor Dick, now don't get nervous. When I say 'I Have Done
Nothing Wrong,' you can signal your boys to relax their trigger fingers."

28 posted on 01/03/2009 6:16:49 AM PST by Liz (The right to be left alone is the beginning of freedom. USSC Justice William O. Douglas)
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To: Bernard

God, I miss Royko!!!

WHAT a journalist!


29 posted on 01/03/2009 6:20:21 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (FREE BLAGO !!! LET HIM SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER !!!)
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To: PAR35
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611173/posts?page=48#48
30 posted on 01/03/2009 6:47:40 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611173/posts?page=48#48
31 posted on 01/03/2009 6:49:30 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: GQuagmire
Well no wonder Jesse Jackson Sr. wanted to fix Bama!!!
32 posted on 01/03/2009 6:49:35 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: autumnraine

I love Blago.....He shows Democrats for what they really are. Plus he’s getting under 0bammy’s skin


33 posted on 01/03/2009 6:57:18 AM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: GQuagmire

Harry caught on wiretap! Love it.


34 posted on 01/03/2009 7:19:29 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: A.A. Cunningham

That’s why I crosslinked instead of hitting the abuse button.

The only abuse button I hit yesterday was on the person that posted a 4th quarter score (not even the final) in Breaking News. It got moved, so I was 1 for 1 for the day.


35 posted on 01/03/2009 9:08:39 AM PST by PAR35
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bump


36 posted on 01/03/2009 9:26:04 AM PST by Iowa Granny
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To: library user

Wheres your proof?


37 posted on 01/03/2009 11:21:51 AM PST by jarofants
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To: GQuagmire

Why don’t they go after Jessie Jackson Jr.?


38 posted on 01/03/2009 11:22:50 AM PST by jarofants
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To: GQuagmire
Reid declined to reveal the specific names discussed, saying he didn’t want to embarrass anyone.

IMO part of the reason the (D)s were against Bush wiretapping terrorists because they feared embarrassing conversations like this could be revealed.

39 posted on 01/04/2009 2:28:28 PM PST by TeleStraightShooter (Barack Hugo Obama - has he ever criticized Hugo Chavez?)
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