Burris Says Blago Wanted $10k Donation Before Senate Appointment (Didn't Disclose This Under Oath

Chicago Sun Times via FOX News ^ | 2/14/2009 | Staff

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Rod Blagojevich's brother asked Roland Burris for up to $10,000 in campaign donations before Burris was appointed to the U.S. Senate by then-Gov. Blagojevich of Illinois, a Burris spokesman told FOX News.

Sen. Burris didn't make the donation but failed to disclose the request under oath before an Illinois House impeachment panel.

Now state House Republicans say they want Burris investigated for perjury.

The Chicago Sun-Times first reported on its web site Saturday that Burris made the disclosure in a new affidavit sent to the head of the state committee that recommmended Blagojevich be removed from office.

According to the nwespaper, the affidavit is dated Feb. 5 -- three weeks after Burris was sworn in to fill President Obama's former Senate seat.

Burris says he sent the affidavit to Illinois House majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie when he realized his testimony before the committee wasn't complete.

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[Laissez-faire capitalist]

According to this article, Burris remembers three conversations he had with Blagojevich, remembers that he refused to contribute and so on, but didn't remember to disclose this?

Amazing, isn't it?

[Spokane]

How did Burris even get the seat if he didn’t cough up the cash?

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

What might have happened if Burris had disclosed this (and people found out about it) before he was appointed by Blagojevich to the U.S. Senate?

[BAW]

The price on Obama’s former senate seat sure did drop . . .dropped down to $10,000. Fire sale price.

[lilylangtree]

How much did obozo’s COS Rahm Immanuel offer during his many talks w/Blago?

[wolfcreek]

Off to jail you go, Bro.

[USMA '71]

Another lying democrat. He should be a model Senator.

[USMA '71]

Another lying democrat. He should be a model Senator.

[benjibrowder]

Its like that whole place is unraveling. Hope it takes Barack with it.

[missnry]

Now state House Republicans say they want Burris investigated for perjury.

Wouldn't they do better to put his name in to Obama for the open cabinet position of Secretary of Commerce? This revelation makes him totally qualified for the position!

[redreno]

[MplsSteve]

Maybe Blago set him up on a lay-away plan...

[La Enchiladita]

I think he’s too dumb to realize he’s incrimanated himself...lol.

[ETL]

Justice Department Briefing on Blagojevich Investigation:
Patrick Fitzgerald, United States attorney general for the Northern District of Illinois [speaking to press]:
Published: December 9, 2008, New York Times

Excerpts from the transcript:

Fitzgerald: "In the governor words -- governor's words, quote, 'Fire all those bleeping people. Get them the bleep out of there. And get us some editorial support', close quote. And the bleeps are not really bleeps."

(snip)

Fitzgerald: "A month or so ago a $1.8 billion tollway project was announced. While that tollway project was being announced, Governor Blagojevich was privately seeking to have a person benefiting from that contract raise $100,000 in contributions, and privately the government (sic) said, 'I could have made a larger announcement but wanted to see how they would perform by the end of the year. If they don't perform, bleep 'em.' That's a quote. And the word 'bleep' was not the word he used."

(snip)

Fitzgerald: "The governor's own words describing the Senate seat, quote, 'It's a bleeping valuable thing -- thing. You just don't give it away for nothing', close quote."

Fitzgerald: "Another quote, 'I've got this thing, and it's bleeping golden. And I'm just not giving it up for bleeping nothing. I'm not going to do it, and I can always use it; I can parachute me there,' quote. Those are his words, not our characterization, other than with regard to the bleep."

Fitzgerald: "The tapes reveal that Governor Blagojevich wanted a number of things in exchange for making the appointment to the Senate seat -- an appointment as secretary of health and human services or an ambassadorship, an appointment to a private foundation, a higher paying job for his wife or campaign contributions."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/politics/09text-illinois.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
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Blago's wife...

"Mrs. Blago, the former Patti Mell, won the hearts of old-school thugs everywhere with her f-word-filled rants captured on FBI wiretaps, some of which were colorfully detailed in the criminal complaint against her hubby..." --Michelle Malkin, December 17, 2008

http://710knus.townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2008/12/17/the_real_housewives_of_crook_county

[Doogle]

...funny how news like this hits on the weekend

[Doogle]

..and after the vote

[river rat]

I suspect there are few Senators who are worthy of escaping the Hangman's noose once the Republic decides we've had enough of their tyranny...

Being comfortably retired, I'll volunteer to supply the rope...
NEW rope, so they won't complain...

[ETL]

Roland Burris and Rep. Bobby Rush (speaking)
at a Chicago news conference announcing
Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appointment of
Burris to the U.S. Senate Dec. 30, 2008.
CBS
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: BOBBY RUSH:

* Democratic Member of Congress

* Member of the radical Progressive Caucus

* In 1968, went AWOL from the U.S. Army

* Co-founder of the Illinois branch of the Black Panther Party

* In 1969, served six months in jail for an illegal weapons conviction

* Advocates reparations for African Americans

"Bobby Rush has described his involvement with the Black Panthers as part of his maturation process, as a youthful indiscretion that he abandoned immediately after Hampton's death. He described his role mostly as running the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast for Children program.

But Bobby Rush served six months in jail for a 1969 illegal weapons conviction and, even after his release, in 1971 his comrades were still describing him as the 'Deputy Minister of Defense' for the Black Panther Party in Illinois. In 1992 the socialist magazine In These Times praised fledgling congressional candidate Rush, writing that he 'has continued to support progressive policies and has never disavowed his Panther past...."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1198
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://web.archive.org/web/20041230150623/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

[mysterio]

How did Burris even get the seat if he didn’t cough up the cash?

Here's my theory :

Blago initially wanted cash for the seat. When he realized the jig was up, he picked the one candidate out of all of them that Washington couldn't reject without questions of racism coming up. He did this to stick his thumb in the eye of his political enemies. And Burris played it perfectly.

Call me a conspiracy nut, but this theory makes sense. A well executed political game, basically.

[Graybeard58]

Being comfortably retired, I'll volunteer to supply the rope...

NEW rope, so they won't complain...

I'll pay for half the cost of the new rope, on condition that Chris Dodd be the first to swing from it.

After a proper trial and conviction of course.