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Source: Feds take [Illinois] Gov. Blagojevich into custody
Chicago Tribune ^ | 12/09/08

Posted on 12/09/2008 6:14:19 AM PST by KeyLargo

Edited on 12/09/2008 6:17:49 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

A source said today that Gov. Rod Blagojevich was taken into federal custody at his North Side home this morning. The U.S. attorney's office would not confirm the information, and a spokesman for the governor did not immediately return a phone call for comment.


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To: maggief

lol...don’t worry about us conservatives, Adam. We’ll be okay.

(the fun part now is, you know every journalist in the state of Illinois is going to work night and day to be the one to uncover the big get: names of the senate candidates)


481 posted on 12/09/2008 9:02:14 AM PST by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: KeyLargo
Shouldn't that headline read... Source: Feds take Disgraced Democratic [Illinois] Gov. Blagojevich into custody

482 posted on 12/09/2008 9:02:19 AM PST by HawaiianGecko (Online internet polls are foolish: Winston Churchill, 1939)
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To: penelopesire

This is from October 18. Old news. Why Drudge is posting it I don’t understand.


483 posted on 12/09/2008 9:02:35 AM PST by Houghton M.
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To: null and void
Nixon thought the same thing.

See my post #347

484 posted on 12/09/2008 9:03:10 AM PST by Poison Pill (It's a Major Award!)
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To: maggief
“The state of Illinois is on kind of a bad run,” Reid added, referring to former governor George Ryan’s imprisonment on corruption charges.

What a dolt. What does that say about Obama? Is he part of the bad run in Dingy Harry's opinion?

485 posted on 12/09/2008 9:03:53 AM PST by arkady_renko
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To: maggief; retrokitten

Someone is saying that Drudge removed the link on the other thread. Perhaps he got punked. It is all coming out though sooner or later. Obama and the brownshirts cannot stop justice and the truth from coming out...it always does in the end.


486 posted on 12/09/2008 9:04:10 AM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: jellybean

She was recruited by Rahm Emmanuel to run for a federal seat in a district she didn’t reside in.

She’s a handicapped veteran of Enduring Freedom.


487 posted on 12/09/2008 9:04:50 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: penelopesire

ohh noes!

LOL

GO DRUDGE


488 posted on 12/09/2008 9:05:11 AM PST by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: KeyLargo

Running slow this morning—snow blowing...just got this news.

A renewed faith in the Deity!

Thank you Lord!


489 posted on 12/09/2008 9:06:08 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

LOLOLOL


490 posted on 12/09/2008 9:06:16 AM PST by retrokitten (I want to rock your gypsy soul, just like way back in the days of old- Into the Mystic)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Thanks. Can’t keep up with this one.


491 posted on 12/09/2008 9:06:31 AM PST by arkady_renko
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To: Houghton M.

yep...I saw that reading the thread. Perhaps something else is about to break and Drudge jumped the gun or got punked.


492 posted on 12/09/2008 9:06:35 AM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire

2 minute warning to the presser!!!


493 posted on 12/09/2008 9:07:52 AM PST by retrokitten (I want to rock your gypsy soul, just like way back in the days of old- Into the Mystic)
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To: Houghton M.

yeah now that I’m reading the link, I’m a little confused...

But even so, what was the outcome from the subpoenas from October?


494 posted on 12/09/2008 9:08:55 AM PST by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: lainie

Someone on the thread said that Drudge dropped the headline. Old news from October 8th or something.

Oh well...still a good day! The news is ALL CHICAGO POLITICAL CORRUPTION ALL DAY!! LOL!!


495 posted on 12/09/2008 9:09:32 AM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Houghton M.

“a really awesomely stupid blabbermouth......”

I would add to your fine description “breathtakingly arrogant”.

It is obvious that Blago should have clammed up and locked things down after the Rezko indictment but he was too stupidly arrogant to do so. Stupidity, arrogance and a big mouth are a bad combination for any politician but it should have penetrated Blago’s obtuseness that with an honest U.S. Attorney (Fitzgerald) in town it was a new ballgame.

You are absolutely correct about Daley and Obama. They will be much tougher nuts to crack because they are smarter than Blago and more ruthless.


496 posted on 12/09/2008 9:09:41 AM PST by ggekko60506
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To: penelopesire

Later in the conversation, ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated that if he appoints Senate Candidate 4 to the Senate seat and, thereafter, it appears that ROD BLAGOJEVICH might get impeached, he could “count on [Senate Candidate 4], if things got hot, to give [the Senate seat] up and let me parachute over there.” HARRIS said, “you can count on [Senate Candidate 4] to do that.” (pg 68)

On November 13, 2008, ROD BLAGOJEVICH talked with JOHN HARRIS. ROD BLAGOJEVICH said he wanted to be able to call “[President-elect Advisor]” and tell President-elect Advisor that “this has nothing to do with anything else we’re working on but the Governor wants to put together a 501(c)(4)” and “can you guys help him. . . raise 10, 15 million.” ROD BLAGOJEVICH said he wanted “[President-elect Advisor] to get the word today,” and that when “he asks me for the Fifth CD thing I want it to be in his head.” (pg 70)

http://chicagoist.com/2008/12/09/quoting_the_blagojevich_complaint.php

President-elect Advisor = Jarrett???


497 posted on 12/09/2008 9:10:07 AM PST by maggief
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To: Beagle8U
I checked over at the DUck pen and most of them are blaming this on Bush!

Yeah, but they're all quackers...

498 posted on 12/09/2008 9:10:19 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: retrokitten

ROB GRANT..Al PATTEN..TOM BRADY..CARY HAMILTON...did not catch the rest.


499 posted on 12/09/2008 9:10:23 AM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire

Fitzgerald up!


500 posted on 12/09/2008 9:10:31 AM PST by retrokitten (I want to rock your gypsy soul, just like way back in the days of old- Into the Mystic)
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